School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
E. M. FORSTERHow can I know what I think till I see what I say?
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Do 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.
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