Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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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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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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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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