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.
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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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