Money pads the edges of things.
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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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