There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. FORSTERI would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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