We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERHuman relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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