E. M. Forster on cloth
E. M. Forster105 quotes“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster 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.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster 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.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster
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