Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. FORSTERHave 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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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