E. M. Forster Quotes About Lying
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The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
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[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
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A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does." He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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