Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. FORSTERSometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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