It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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