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. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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