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Life Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we…
- A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
- Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
- Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
- Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always…
- Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
- Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
- America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to…
- Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to…
- Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as…
- Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly;…
- In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked…
- 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…
- She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went…
- It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be…
- Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into…
- People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes;…
- In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness…
- Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as…
- All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am…
- One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
- Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle