Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. FORSTERI have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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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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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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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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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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