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.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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 four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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