One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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