We move between two darknesses.
E. M. FORSTERThink before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
More E. M. Forster Quotes
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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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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.
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
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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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So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
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… there are shadows because there are hills.
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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,’ said an old gentleman with a beard. ‘I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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