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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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A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil ha...more

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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love ...more

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... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.

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... and someone he scarcely knew moved towards him and knelt beside him and whispered, 'Sir, was you calling out for me? ... Sir, I know ... I know,' ...more

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... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweet...more

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He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very w...more

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After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

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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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Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.

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He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all h...more

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There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no scie...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.

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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

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He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.