Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTER
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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