The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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