At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERTo make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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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 cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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