I 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.
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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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What 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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What 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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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