Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTEROne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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