At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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