I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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We move between two darknesses.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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If 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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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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