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One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

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Football, Motivation, Passion

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

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Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

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Important, What's Important, Impressive
E M Forster (2011). “Maurice”, p.27, Hachette UK

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

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Unusual, Grows, Understood
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), Natwar-Singh, K (1964). “E.M. Forster: a Tribute. With Selections from His Writings on India. Edited, and with an Introd. by K. Natwar-Singh. Contributors: Ahmed Ali [and Others.]”, New York Harcourt

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

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Mother, War, Grateful
E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.75, 谷月社

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

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Real, Journey, Soul

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

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Inspirational, Education, Running
"The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

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Hurt, Mean, People
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.258, Delphi Classics

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

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Umpires, Shadow, Room With A View
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

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Writing, Thinking, Literature

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

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Beauty, Connections, Literature
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.223, Delphi Classics

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

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Moving, Sunshine, Darkness
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

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Life Is Like, Violin, Life Is
"Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics".

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

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Life, Memories, Understanding
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks

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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Friendship, Country, Cheating
Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

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Life, Two, Worried

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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Love, Romantic, Romance
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

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Mistake, Earth, Realizing

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

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Life And Love, Giving, Want
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.25, RosettaBooks

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

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Mysterious
E. M. Forster (2016). “Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature”, p.126, 谷月社

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

E. M. Forster
Race, Curiosity, Mind
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

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Thinking, Helping, Admire
E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.39, Diversion Books

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

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Friendship, Trust, Real Friends
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

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Book, Way, Assimilation
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.28, RosettaBooks

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

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Stars, Wind, Tree
E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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