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.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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