What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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