How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. FORSTERThough life is very glorious, it is difficult.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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