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We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

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If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

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Please all, and you will please none.

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

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Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

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In journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.

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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

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The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

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Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.

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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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