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.
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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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