It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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