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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.
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
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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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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There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
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All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
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It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
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Don't be mysterious there isn't the time.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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The so called white races are really pinko-grey.
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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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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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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
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