I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTERYou confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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The historian records, but the novelist creates.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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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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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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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.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all… My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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