It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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