It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
E. M. FORSTERIt 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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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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