What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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