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E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.

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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.

Tags: Love, Beautiful
E. M. Forster

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.

Tags: Today, Order, Chaos
E. M. Forster

History develops, art stands still.

Tags: Work, Value, Emotion
E. M. Forster

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

Tags: Half, Eternal, Fleeting
E. M. Forster

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Tags: Education, Must, Public
E. M. Forster

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Tags: Best, Little, Look
E. M. Forster

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.

Tags: Art, After, Value
E. M. Forster

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Tags: Life, Either, Ceases
E. M. Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Tags: Problem, Problems, Solution
E. M. Forster

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.

Tags: Life, Acceptance, Living
E. M. Forster

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