We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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.
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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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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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