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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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