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Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
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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[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.
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He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
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One can run away from women, turn them out, or give in to them. No fourth course.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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