Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Quote by E M Forster

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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...

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...

No one is India.

No one is India.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which...

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

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.

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...