Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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 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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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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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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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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