There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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