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.
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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