Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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