Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. FORSTERIt isn’t possible to love and to part.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is ‘Lord, I disbelieve – help thou my unbelief.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
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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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You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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