The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
E. M. FORSTERThere 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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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