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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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.E. M. Forster
The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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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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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
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I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E. M. Forster
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