It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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