The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. FORSTERThe other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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