To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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