Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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