Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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