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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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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Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
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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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It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
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The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
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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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It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
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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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Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
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A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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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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Of course he despised the world as a whole every thoughtful man should it is almost a test of refinement.
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This solitude opressed her she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
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