Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERMost 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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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