Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTERAt night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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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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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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It isn’t possible to love and to part.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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