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.
E. M. FORSTERThe historian records, but the novelist creates.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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We move between two darknesses.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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