Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERThere is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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