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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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England
Edward Morgan Forster
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
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I do not believe in Belief.
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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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My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
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Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
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Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.
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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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