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- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
- School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world…
- It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and…
- She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between…
- No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then…
- One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
- In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,…
- The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
- 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…
- I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will…
- Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving…
- He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a…
- 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…
- Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want…
- He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that…
- He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
- Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our…
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