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.
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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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