It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
E. M. FORSTERDeath destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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The 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.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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