If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
E. M. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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 won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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