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E. M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
E. M. Forster
Nasihat
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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
Kehidupan
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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
Kehidupan
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History develops, art stands still.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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 donna.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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 multiplicity of life.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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 can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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
Kehidupan
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
Kehidupan
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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
Kehidupan
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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
Kehidupan