I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. FORSTERThe emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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