The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTEROne grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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