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My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

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Believe, Soul, Gains

E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.105, 谷月社

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While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

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Heart, Tea, Culture

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

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Men, Literature, Agnostic

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.201, Delphi Classics

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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around the camp-fire, fatigued with contending against the mammoth or wooly-rhinoceros, and only kept awake by suspense. What would happen next? The novelist droned on, and as soon as the audience guessed what happened next, they either fell asleep or killed him.

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Men, Editors, Skulls

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

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Book, Reading, Writing

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... there are shadows because there are hills.

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Shadow, Hills, Room With A View

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.444, Delphi Classics

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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

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Love Is, Thinking, World

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.183, 谷月社

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Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

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Giving, After Death

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.

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Believe, Teaching, People

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

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Love Is, Doe, Affair

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

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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

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Thinking, People, Three

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One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

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History, Emotion, Certain

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.655, Delphi Classics

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It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

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Distance, Gentleman, Ears

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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Love is always being given where it is not required.

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Love, Love Is, Literature

Selected Letters: Letter 137, to Syed Ross Masood, December 5, 1914.

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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

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Men, Literature, Holiness

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.121, RosettaBooks

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A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

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Writing, Giving, Novel

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Money pads the edges of things.

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Pads, Edges

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howards End”, p.59, Sheba Blake Publishing

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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Get Well, Soul, Secret

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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

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People, Literature, Individual

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

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Man can learn everything if he will but try.

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Men, Trying, Ifs

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.87, RosettaBooks

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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

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Heart, Men, Way

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.270, RosettaBooks

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I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.

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Running, Strong, Men

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.674, Delphi Classics

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There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

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Self, Years, Use

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.675, Delphi Classics

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The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

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Honesty, Men, Soul

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.132, Courier Corporation

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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

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Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970
Occupation: Novelist
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