Don’t begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. FORSTEROne has two duties – to be worried and not to be worried.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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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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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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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
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School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.
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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 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 main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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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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I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.
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I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.
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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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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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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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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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