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.
E. M. FORSTERPeople 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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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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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