But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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