I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. FORSTERIt’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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