What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
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People 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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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