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.
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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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There 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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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