One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERUnless we remember we cannot understand.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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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