"Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others…" — E. M. Forster
"Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither."
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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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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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True love stories never have endings.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
— Honore de Balzac
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
— George Balanchine
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
— Honore de Balzac
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
— Honore de Balzac
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
— Franklin P. Adams
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
— Edward Abbey
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
— Drew Barrymore
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
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