Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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