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“I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.” quote by Edward Carpenter — Download Open image

“I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.”

Edward Carpenter

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Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block,…

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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

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“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and…

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I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

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“So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;”

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“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are beginning to demand that Marriage shall mean…

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We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

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Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

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