I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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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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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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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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We move between two darknesses.
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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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