At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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The 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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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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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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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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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.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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