I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTERThe king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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It 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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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