Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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 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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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