It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERMoney pads the edges of things.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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