Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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