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.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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I 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.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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