It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERWhen I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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