Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTERThere’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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We move between two darknesses.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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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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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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