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.
E. M. FORSTERInside 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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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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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