Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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