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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

E. M. Forster
Fate, Agreement, Literature

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

E. M. Forster
Falling In Love, Moving, Fate
E. M. Forster (2012). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.96, Courier Corporation

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

E. M. Forster
Teaching, Fate, Men
E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.224, Diversion Books

“It is Fate that I am here,” persisted George. “But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.”

E. M. Forster
Fate, Unhappy, Room With A View
"Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

E. M. Forster
Fate, Sound, Looks
E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.656, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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