How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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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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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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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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