At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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