The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERIf 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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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.
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For 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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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