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" Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. "

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" Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. "

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" There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. "

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

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

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

" The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. "

" 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. "

" It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. "

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

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

" The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. "

" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "

" For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. "

" The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. "

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" I am certainly an ought and not a must. "

" I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. "

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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. "

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

" If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. "

" I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. "