It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERThere 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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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