Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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 easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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