How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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