I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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