One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. FORSTERThe sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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