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.
E. M. FORSTERHave you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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We move between two darknesses.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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 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.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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