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.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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