Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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 isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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