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.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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