One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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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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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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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