The historian records, but the novelist creates.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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