Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. FORSTERI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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 sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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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.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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