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E. M. Forster Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“I don’t think I do understand people very well. I only know whether I like — or dislike — them.”
— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Tagged: Understanding People, Understanding Others, sympathy, Empathy, Preference, Interaction, Relationships
“It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
— E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
Tagged: Love, Togetherness, eternal
“It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”
— E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey
Tagged: hurt, Pain, Worth, People, Relationships
“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”
— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Tagged: exuse, forgive, Mistakes, Realize, Limitations, Limits, Life, Living, Easy, hard, difficult, known, Knowledge, Earth
“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It’s the only thing I do believe in.”
— E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Tagged: Teaching, Understanding, human beings, humanity, Belief, Principles, Being human
“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, A Room with a View
Tagged: Barriers, hedge, locked, Prisoner, differences in our own freedom, Freedom, Choice, decision, Life
“I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.”
— E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
Tagged: Literary Love, Literature
“Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.”
— E. M. Forster, Maurice: A Novel
Tagged: Love In Literature, Literature And Love
“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”
— E. M. Forster, The Life to Come: And Other Stories
Tagged: Life, Come Back, Change, Growing Up, you and I
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