People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTEROnly a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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