The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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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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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 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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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