You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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