One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTERThe emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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 emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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