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.
E. M. FORSTERIf I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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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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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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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can’t touch – like England ‘s grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.
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