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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
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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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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.
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It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
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For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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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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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
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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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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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When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
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