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.
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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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