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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. . .

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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Essayist
Librettist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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London
England
Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
EM Forster
Life
Space
Nobility
Peace
Existed
Bigs
Woods
Science
Sky
Better
Reach
Arched
Ever
Friend
Clasped
Something
Full
Majestic
Love
Passion
Spaces

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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!
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