People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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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 sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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