It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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Money pads the edges of things.
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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