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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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  Reading, Men, Literature

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

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  Book, Gone, Littles

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Books That Influenced Me"

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• Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

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  Life Is, Difficult, Glorious

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

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  Kings, Queens, Grief

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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  Life, Food, Sleep

  "Aspects of the Novel".

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• Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

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  Book, Way, Assimilation

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

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  Money, Evil, Temptation

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

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  Long, Risk, Great Risk

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.725, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

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  May, Emotion, Endless

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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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  Mistake, Earth, Realizing

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• Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

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  Mysterious

  E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

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  Eye, Entering, Victim

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.603, Delphi Classics

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• It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Fence

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.427, Delphi Classics

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• You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

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  Romantic, Room With A View, Muddle

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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• ...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

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  Food, Cooking, Spirit

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• Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Too Much

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• The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

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  World, Kingdoms, Music Is

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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• Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

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  Mistake, Humility, Hypocrisy

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.183, RosettaBooks

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• No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

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  Men, Facts, He Man

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

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  Death, Men, Ideas

  E.M. Forster “Howards End”, Рипол Классик

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• Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

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  Echoes, Silence, Arches

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• Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?

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  Passion, Flirting, Law

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.585, Delphi Classics

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• The historian records, but the novelist creates.

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  Writing, Novelists, Records

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• If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

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  People, Atheism, Trying

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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