There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. FORSTERDon’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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