The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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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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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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Money pads the edges of things.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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