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.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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