But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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We move between two darknesses.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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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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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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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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