Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Don’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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