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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.
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
E Forster
EM Forster
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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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Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
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A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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