Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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