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. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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So 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.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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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.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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