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- It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be… Character
- All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls… Action
- Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into… Admiration
- Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored. Any
- A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… All
- The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant. Any
- If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the… Actuality
- People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes;… Completely
- Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth. Ambrosial
- Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to… Adolescence
- Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. Judge
- It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of… Becomes
- Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as… Carries
- In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness… Apart
- I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. Faith
- If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. Earth
- Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. Diphtheria
- It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. Afraid
- A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. Artist
- Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance. Exist
- The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a… Accident
- Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. August
- Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is… Able
- Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.… Alert
- It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying… Amusing
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