People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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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