It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and, close below, Arno, gurgling against the embankment of the road.
E. M. FORSTERYou can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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 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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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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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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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Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
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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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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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Money pads the edges of things.
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