How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTEROne 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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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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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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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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