Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTERMy 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.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend.
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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