Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTER
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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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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It 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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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