It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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