I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
E. M. FORSTEROne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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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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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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