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.
E. M. FORSTERTo 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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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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 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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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 main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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