Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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 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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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 temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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