Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
E. M. FORSTERMy conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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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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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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