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Too Quotes by E. M. Forster
- Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I…
- It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling…
- Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
- But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking…
- 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…
- Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is…
- I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little…
- 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…
- 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…
- Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She…
- A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now…
- This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to…
- It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a…
- Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
- I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery…
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