What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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