We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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