Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERLet yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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 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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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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