All E. M. Forster Quotes
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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