The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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