It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
E. M. FORSTERMost 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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