At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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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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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 cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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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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