… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERThe other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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We move between two darknesses.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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