English - Novelist | January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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