The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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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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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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