I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTERFor 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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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 sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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We move between two darknesses.
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