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.
E. M. FORSTERI 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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 person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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