A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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 always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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 believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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