You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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