The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Human 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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