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.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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