Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. FORSTERAziz 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’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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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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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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