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.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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We move between two darknesses.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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