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The crime of suicide lies in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E. M. Forster - Howards End
British novelist
1879 - 1970
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
E. M. Forster - "A Room with a View"
British novelist
1879 - 1970
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.
Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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 own particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster - Two Cheers for Democracy
British novelist
1879 - 1970
Pathos, piety, courage, ? they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
E. M. Forster - A Passage to India
British novelist
1879 - 1970
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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