Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERSchool was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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 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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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