You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTEROne always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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