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“God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“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.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.”
― E.M. Forster

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
― E.M. Forster

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“And my last words shall be these – that it is only from the inmost silences of the heart that we know the world for what it is, and ourselves for what the world has made us.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, Sherston's Progress

“At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“O, but Everyone
Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy.”
― Siegfried Sassoon, The Imperfect Lover