E. M. Forster | great
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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E. M. Forster | good
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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E. M. Forster | freedom
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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E. M. Forster | 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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E. M. Forster | experience
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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E. M. Forster | death
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.
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