What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. FORSTERLet 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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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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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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 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.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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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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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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