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.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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My 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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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