One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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 historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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