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.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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