One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. FORSTERLife never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim, “I do enjoy myself”, or , “I am horrified,” we are insincere.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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We move between two darknesses.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.
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