How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERMoney pads the edges of things.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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