At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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