Quote by E.M. Forster
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their star

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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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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I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. – E.M. Forster

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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? – Mason Cooley

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Astrologers that future fates foreshow. – Alexander Pope

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