Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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