Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
E. M. FORSTERRailway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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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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There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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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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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “…There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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