It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The 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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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