One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Let 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.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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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