"I believe we shall come to care about……" — E. M. Forster
"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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