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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.
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If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
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Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
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Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
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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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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.
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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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She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge the poor cannot afford it.
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Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.
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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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Money pads the edges of things.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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