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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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