If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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