When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERThe main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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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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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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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