Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTERMy 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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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