The other damned saw what was happening and caught hold of it too. She was indignant and cried, “Let go-it’s my onion,” and as soon as she said, “my onion,” the stalk broke and she fell back into the flames.
E. M. FORSTERWe cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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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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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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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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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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We move between two darknesses.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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