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.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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