There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E. M. FORSTERI 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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