You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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