When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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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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 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 move between two darknesses.
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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 is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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