The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTERHuman relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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