Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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