Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTERSo 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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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