When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. FORSTERSo I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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