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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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[...] 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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The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.
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Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.
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The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
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How few writers can prostitute all their powers!
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She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.
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I do not believe in Belief.
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She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.
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It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
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They had nothing in common but the English language.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
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There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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We may divide characters into flat and round.
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Ideas are fatal to caste.
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All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
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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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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
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