I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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 emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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