Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
E. M. FORSTERDon’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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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.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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