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" The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. "

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" The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. "

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

" The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. "

" History develops, art stands still. "

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

" 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. "

" No one is India. "

" One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. "

" 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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" Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. "

" 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. "

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" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "

" 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. "

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

" I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. "

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

" Nonsense and beauty have close connections. "

" 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. "

" But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. "

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" 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. "

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

" At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. "