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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster
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E. M. Forster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 7
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Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge the poor cannot afford it.
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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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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.
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I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
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He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought Am I led am I leading? Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
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Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
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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.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.
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