The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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So 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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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We move between two darknesses.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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