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> [“As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary to relieve life's daily grey, and to show that it is grey. If possible, one should have both.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/as-i-said-either-friends-or-the-country-some-either-some-very-dear/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

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## More by E M Forster

> [“To ascend, to stretch a hand up the mountainside until a hand catches it, was the end for which he had been born.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/to-ascend-to-stretch-a-hand-up-the-mountainside-until-a-hand-catches/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [ I have been racking my brains and can find no reply \[to\] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/i-have-been-racking-my-brains-and-can-find-no-reply-to-this-very/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [“I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/i-don-t-intend-him-or-any-man-or-any-woman-to-be-all-my-life-good/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [“As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/as-i-said-either-friends-or-the-country-some-either-some-very-dear/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/it-is-a-mistake-to-think-that-books-have-come-to-stay-the-human-race/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [“And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/and-if-insight-were-sufficient-if-the-inner-life-were-the-whole-of/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [“The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/the-sense-of-purity-is-a-puzzling-and-at-times-a-fearful-thing-it/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

> [No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-forster-3/no-man-can-be-an-agnostic-who-has-a-sense-of-humor/)

[E M Forster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-forster-3/)

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