The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERThe final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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