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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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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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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Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
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God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
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I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
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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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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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It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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 don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
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Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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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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The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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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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