The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Works 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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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