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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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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London
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Edward Morgan Forster
E Forster
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
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They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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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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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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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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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
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I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
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