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

— E. M. Forster

#birth #death #facts #five #food

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

— E. M. Forster

#because #book #got #long #long book

How can I know what I think till I see what I say? ↗

— E. M. Forster

#i #i see #i think #know #say

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#bull #bulls #couple #cow #dairy

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#love #lust #only #sentimentality #struggle

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#both #classed #express #good #letters

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

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A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone. ↗

— James L. Sutter

#religion #death

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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