I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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