For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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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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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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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 kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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