I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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E. M. Forster
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About E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. He also co-authored the libretto to Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951). Many of his novels examine…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by E. M. ForsterFaith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
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 c…
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 mult…
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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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 d…
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 d…
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
History develops, art stands still.
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.
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.