You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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