It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
E. M. FORSTERI distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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