E. M. Forster

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Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).

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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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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

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History develops, art stands still.

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Love is always being given where it is not required.

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

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I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.