One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. FORSTERThe king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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