It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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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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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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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