Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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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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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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