But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense 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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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We move between two darknesses.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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