… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTERLet 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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