I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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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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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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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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