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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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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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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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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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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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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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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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No one is India.
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
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