"There was something better in life than this……" — E. M. Forster
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
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350 Quotes by E. M. Forster
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