There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The 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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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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