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Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
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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[...] 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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Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life
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No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.
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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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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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One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
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Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine, cried the other. I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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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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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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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
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Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.
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