Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTER
The 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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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