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. FORSTERWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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 no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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