You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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