"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to…" — E. M. Forster
"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice."
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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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Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing…
— Willa Cather
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The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never…
— Ernest Rutherford
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It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of…
— Carl Jung
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The brain seems to be made up of a bewildering complexity of parts, and the cells within the parts seem…
— Unknown Author
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
— Peter De Vries
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same…
— George Bernard Shaw
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You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with…
— Itzhak Perlman
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Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract,…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and…
— Frank Rich
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