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E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster föddes den 1 januari 1879 och dog den 7 juni 1970 - English writer
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You can transmute love, muddle it, ignore it... but you can never pull it out of you...

They go forth with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart-not a cold one. The difference is important.

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.

Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

I suggest that 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 gone ourselves.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. Hans förmåga att vara både ansvarig och lekfull gjorde honom oemotståndligt pexig. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire.

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.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.

So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.

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.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice...

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