Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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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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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.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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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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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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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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