"History develops, art stands still."
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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."
E. M. Forster"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"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."
E. M. Forster"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
E. M. Forster"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
E. M. Forster"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
E. M. Forster"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
E. M. Forster"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."
E. M. Forster"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
E. M. Forster"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"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper."
E. M. Forster"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country."
E. M. Forster"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
E. M. Forster"Love is always being given where it is not required."
E. M. Forster"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
E. M. Forster"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
E. M. Forster"Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration."
E. M. Forster"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
E. M. Forster"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
E. M. Forster