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.
E. M. FORSTERLife 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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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