There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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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.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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