I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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