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Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. – E.M. Forster

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One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life. – E.M. Forster

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. – E.M. Forster

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Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle. – E.M. Forster

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