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E. M. Forster

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

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"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

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"Knowledge of all living beings of the entire world is in only one Soul. But the knowledge that sees the ego and everything, as objects to be known (gneya); only that knowledge is called as the 'Knowledge'. However, that is partial Knowledge but only from that moment it is regarded as real applied focused awareness. Where there is Knowledge, the focused applied awareness may be partial or complete."

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"A book written within, contains ideas and thoughts from all over, where each page explains itself."

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"We find paradise in every library and bookshop."

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"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working. His (Korean) friends nod and smile and eat the food they've taken from tins and say no pleasantly."

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"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

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"How many times can one have a heart attack within a week?"

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"Knowledge gained is as useless as prideif filed away and never applied."

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"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"History develops, art stands still."
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"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul."
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"The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher."
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"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake."
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