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.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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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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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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.
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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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