The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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We move between two darknesses.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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