Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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