It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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