The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERWorks 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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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