The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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We move between two darknesses.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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