You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERShe 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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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