Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. FORSTERIf we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore 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.
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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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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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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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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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