… there are shadows because there are hills.
E. M. FORSTEROne must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
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One has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
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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.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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