People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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