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This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal: the very best and the very worst.

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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…

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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

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I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

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It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

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There are in this world only two earthly paradises. The one is in Provence...The other is the Reading Room of the British Museum.

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They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

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No more Hope, no more Glory, no more parades for you and me any more. Nor for the country... nor for the world, I dare say... None... Gone.

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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.

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He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

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It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

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You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained... and exhausted. So that... That in effect was love.

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Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

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The war had made a man of him! It had coarsened him and hardened him. There was no other way to look at it. It had made him reach a point at which he would no longer stand unbearable things.

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