Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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