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.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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 always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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