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Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic.
He is best known for his novels A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), and A Passage to India (1924).
Forster was born in London and educated at Tonbridge School and King's College, Cambridge.
He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of intellectuals and artists who met regularly in London from the early 1900s to the 1930s.
Forster's novels explore themes of class, sexuality, and colonialism.
He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1969 and died in 1970.

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

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Love

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Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

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Truth

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

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Inspirational

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It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

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Truth

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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Inspirational

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Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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Life

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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

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How do I know what I think until I see what I say?

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Writing

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I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

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