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I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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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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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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
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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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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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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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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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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.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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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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