Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. FORSTERWhen you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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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.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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