The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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 person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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