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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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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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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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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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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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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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