Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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