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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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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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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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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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle. – Johannes Kepler

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I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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Astrologers are agreed that the squiggles called a horoscope contain some sort of message to be decoded… – Dennis Elwell

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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. – Carl Gustav Jung

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