How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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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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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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