Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTERFor 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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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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 to part.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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