Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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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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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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Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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