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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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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There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
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Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
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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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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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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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