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.
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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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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t’other from which . . .
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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There’s never any great risk as long as you have money.
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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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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
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It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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