It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTERInside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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If 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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