We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERWhat 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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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We 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 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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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