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.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was 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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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