The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
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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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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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