One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTERThe final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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