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.
E. M. FORSTERBut the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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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 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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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