You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
E. M. FORSTERA poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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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?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We move between two darknesses.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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