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.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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