Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
E. M. FORSTERThe kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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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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I won’t be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
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