Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTERAziz 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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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It 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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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