At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTERThe 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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