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. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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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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