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.
E. M. FORSTERScience is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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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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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
E. M. FORSTERHave you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
E. M. FORSTERI cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERGive, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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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.
E. M. FORSTERWe 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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She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
E. M. FORSTERShe had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went to hell. As she lay in torment she saw the onion, lowered down from heaven by an angel. She caught hold of it. He began to pull her up.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. FORSTERPeople have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTERAdventures do occur, but not punctually.
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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.
E. M. FORSTERI won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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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.
E. M. FORSTERWorks 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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E. M. FORSTERWhen you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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.
E. M. FORSTERLove 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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
E. M. FORSTERLife never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERWe move between two darknesses.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E. M. FORSTERShe stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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