What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERIt was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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