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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster
Book, Gone, Littles
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Books That Influenced Me"

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

E. M. Forster
Life Is, Difficult, Glorious
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

E. M. Forster
May, Emotion, Endless

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

E. M. Forster
May, I May Not Be, Be You

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

E. M. Forster
Long, Risk, Great Risk
E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.725, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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Life, Food, Sleep
"Aspects of the Novel".

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

E. M. Forster
Thinking, Criticism, Literature
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Raison d'ˆtre of Criticism"

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

E. M. Forster
Get Well, Soul, Secret

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster
Reading, Men, Literature
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

E. M. Forster
Romantic, Room With A View, Muddle
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

E. M. Forster
Kings, Queens, Grief
E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

E. M. Forster
Money, Evil, Temptation
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

E. M. Forster
Differences, Making A Difference, Fence
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

E. M. Forster
World, Kingdoms, Music Is
E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster
Art, Men, Creative
"Two Cheers for Democracy". Book by E. M. Forster, 1951.

I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

E. M. Forster
Believe, Teaching, People
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

E. M. Forster
Eye, Entering, Victim
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.603, Delphi Classics

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

E. M. Forster
Love Is, Doe, Affair
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

E. M. Forster
Writing, Novelists, Records

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

E. M. Forster
History, Emotion, Certain
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

E. M. Forster
Poverty, Poet, Poor
Howards End Chapter 6

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

E. M. Forster
People, Literature, Individual
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

E. M. Forster
Self, Years, Use
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

E. M. Forster
Echoes, Silence, Arches

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

E. M. Forster
Heart, Differences, Mind

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