The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
E. M. FORSTER
E. M. FORSTER
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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.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster 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.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster … there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. ForsterE. M. Forster Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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