The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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 armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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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.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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