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" Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. "

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" We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "

" One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. "

" Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. "

" 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. "

" Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety. "

" It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. "

" I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. "

" England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. "

" Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. "

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "

" The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. "

" No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. "

" Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. "

" Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. "

" The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. "

" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "

" How can I know what I think till I see what I say? "

" Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed. "

" We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. "

" 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. "

" If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. "

" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. "

" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "

" 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. "

" There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. "

" Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. "