Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. FORSTERWorks of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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