Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERShe stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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