Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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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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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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