One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
E. M. FORSTERAziz 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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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