One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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