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.
E. M. FORSTERShe 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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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