"But the body is deeper than the soul……" — E. M. Forster

"But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable."

— E. M. Forster

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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster has 350 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never…

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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