Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Quote by E M Forster

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there...

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope...

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is...

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate

We make our own fortunes and we call them fate

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches...