When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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