When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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