"Pity wraps the student of the past in……" — E. M. Forster
"Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth."
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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 Ambrosial Quotes
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They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.
— Unknown Author
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When life is hard and the day has been long, the ideal dinner is not four perfect courses, each in…
— Laurie Colwin
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I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that…
— David Leavitt
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A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus…
— Henry David Thoreau
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O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
— James Joyce
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing…
— Edward Dahlberg
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head…
— Homer
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Blessed, blessed is their Guru, whose mouth tastes the Ambrosial Fruit of the Lord.
— Guru Gobind Singh
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