Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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 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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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