Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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E.M. Forster
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Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

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He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

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After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

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Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.

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He was thinking of the irony of friendship—so strong it is, and so fragile. We fly together, like straws in an eddy, to part in the open stream.

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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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There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

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