Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
E. M. FORSTERCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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