Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
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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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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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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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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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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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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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