One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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