There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. FORSTERI 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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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