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"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
11+ Quotes by E. M. Forster
A curated collection of 11 inspirational quotes by E. M. Forster on life, wisdom, and the human experience.
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"Nonsense and beauty have close connections."
— E. M. Forster
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"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
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"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
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"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
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"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."
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"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
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"I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."