It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
E. M. FORSTERBooks have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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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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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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I can only do what’s easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can’t, and won’t, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who’s strong enough to boss me or whom I’m strong enough to boss.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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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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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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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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