"By the side of the everlasting Why there……" — E. M. Forster
"By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling,…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of…
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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 Everlasting Quotes
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
— Benjamin Britten
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis,…
— Margaret Cho
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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
— Immanuel Kant
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in…
— Rabia Basri
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Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only…
— Unknown Author
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which…
— David Lloyd George
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Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love…
— Gloria Gaither
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