You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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