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Arnold Bennett
Data de nascimento: 27. Maio 1867
Data de falecimento: 27. Março 1931
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Enoch Arnold Bennett foi um novelista britânico.
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político americano
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„Sua mente é um espaço sagrado na qual nada de mal pode entrar, exceto com sua permissão!“
— Arnold Bennett
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
"The Human Machine" - Página 45; Publicado por G.H. Doran company, 1911; 123 páginas
„A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.“
— Arnold Bennett, The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts
The Title (1918), Act I
„And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.“
— Arnold Bennett
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.
„Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face“
— Arnold Bennett
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), disconcerting though the sight may be
Chapter 8.
„Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.“
— Arnold Bennett
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
