The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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