When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
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.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
... there are shadows because there are hills.
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
Money pads the edges of things.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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