Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Quote by E M Forster

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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of...

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of...

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.

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...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the...

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.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a...

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for....

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

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...

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.