Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the…

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

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

History develops, art stands still.

History develops, art stands still.

Ideas are fatal to caste

Ideas are fatal to caste

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

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

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

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

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

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.