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

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Certain Emotions Nothing Own Truth

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

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Death Destroys Him Idea Man Saves

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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Able Always Bad Being Boring Dull Had Love Means Merely Negative People Press Putting Stand Things Tolerance Unlike Up Very Virtue

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Affection Anything Anything Else Cannot Define Else Final Friends Novel Our Test We Cannot Which Will

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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Attain Books Collective Curtains Dignity Drawn Fire Night

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Cannot Remember Understand Unless We Cannot

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: About Admit Amidst Away Cannot Censorship Dangers Enough Foresee Freedom Get Her In The Past Nervous Nuisance Outcome Past Praise Present Safely She Tucked We Cannot Whose Willing

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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Children Good Good Luck Line Luck Much None Playing Safe Us World

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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: For The People Italians Land Love Marvellous More People Than Understand

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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Does Highly Life Lower Morality More Organized Public Public Life Sink

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1879

Died: June 7th, 1970

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