It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTERShe had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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We move between two darknesses.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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