Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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