The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
E. M. FORSTEROne grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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