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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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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does. He thought. Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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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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Man can learn everything if he will but try.
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
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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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By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
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God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something vulgarity, concealing something.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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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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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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