Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
E.M. Forster
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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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.
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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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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.
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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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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.
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Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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