We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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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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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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