One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E. M. FORSTER… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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