I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTERI believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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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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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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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We move between two darknesses.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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