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

E. M. Forster

Believe, Soul, Gains

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

E. M. Forster

Love, Love Is, Literature

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

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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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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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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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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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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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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

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Greatness, Men, Blood

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

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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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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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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

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Memories, Stupid, People

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

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