Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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