Money pads the edges of things.
E. M. FORSTERThe armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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