I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
E. M. FORSTERDo not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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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.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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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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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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