How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERThere 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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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 other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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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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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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