Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTERMistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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