I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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