One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERNonsense and beauty have close connections.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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