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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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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