It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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