The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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