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. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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