Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Railway 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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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We move between two darknesses.
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