The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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