We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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