E. M. Forster

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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

death

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

E. M. Forster

death

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

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experience

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

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experience

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

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faith

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

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faith

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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food

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.

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freedom

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

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freedom

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

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good

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