Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERWe must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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