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Do you remember Italy?
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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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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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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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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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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This solitude opressed her she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.
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Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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Riposte of that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical, Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
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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 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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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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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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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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Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
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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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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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