It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.
History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.
... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.
Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.
I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.
His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.
I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.
Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.
Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.
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