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.
E. M. FORSTERLife is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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