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.
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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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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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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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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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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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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