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Quotes by E M Forster
- 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.
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
- The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
- The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
- The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
- 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.
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