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. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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