Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
We move between two darknesses.
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
It isn't possible to love and to part.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, "I do enjoy myself", or , "I am horrified," we are insincere.
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