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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Beyond Death Deaths Differ Even Lives Nothing Nothingness Our Own People Shall Well

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There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Bad Bad Taste Italy Majestic Something Taste

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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Happens Husband Know Like Next Want

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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Earth House Mansions Many Words

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Beforehand Emergencies Equip Expense Joy Life May Prepared Themselves Those Who

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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Countryside Destruction English Genuine Growth Theme Tragic

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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Infectious More Paganism Piety Than

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

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Faith Individual Mystic People

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

~E. M. Forster

Topics: Allowed Been Eyes Freedom Grown-Up Look Only People Practise Who

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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

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Topics: Behave Eternal Immortal Most People Respect Society Were

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 1st, 1879

Died: June 7th, 1970

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