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I don't know what to think until I see what I've said.
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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Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
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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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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
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Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.
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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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He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for 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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Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
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It isn't possible to love and to part.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.
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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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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
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It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
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