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I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

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Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by ext...more

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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

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If we lived for ever, what you say would be true. But we have to die, we have to leave life presently. Injustice and greed would be the real thing if ...more

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Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had...more

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They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besid...more

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Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.