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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Behave Eternal Immortal Most People Respect Society

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