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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
E. M. FORSTER

Death Destroy Idea Man Save
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
E. M. FORSTER

Become Believe Come Country Easier Less More People Person replace Shall
So I shan’t ever marry, for there aren’t such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say ‘Jack Robinson.
E. M. FORSTER

Away Certainty Country Men People Person Run Shall
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. FORSTER

Faith Individual Mystic People
I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.
E. M. FORSTER

Believe Individual People Teach Understand
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we’re still no nearer to understanding one another.
E. M. FORSTER

Carnal Century Embracement Fudss Made Marriage Nearer Sometimes Think Understanding
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E. M. FORSTER

Against Elbow Embankment Identity Learn Likewise Magic Parapet Position Stop Times
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. FORSTER

Else Hang Information Itself Nothing Poem Point Something Together True
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time – beautiful?
E. M. FORSTER

Beautiful Indelicate Most Notice People Same Thing Time Yet
You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.
E. M. FORSTER

Confuse Important Impressive
It makes a difference doesn’t it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?
E. M. FORSTER

Barrier Cut Difference Fence Fully Make Other Ourselves Whether
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
E. M. FORSTER

Buy Evil Look Money One Rather Tempt Thing
It isn’t possible to love and to part.
E. M. FORSTER

Love Part Possible
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.
E. M. FORSTER

Accomplishment Intention Judge Once Shall Told
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. FORSTER

Attain Book Collective Curtain Dignity Drawn Ficker Fire Night
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E. M. FORSTER

Alone Been Believe Curiously Intimate Ourselves Radiate Serious Something Thing Watch

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