Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. FORSTERYou can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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