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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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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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 cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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