Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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We move between two darknesses.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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