I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
E. M. FORSTERLife is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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