If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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