Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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