I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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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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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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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