We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. FORSTEROutside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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