The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Quote by E M Forster

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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable...

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to...

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to...

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it...

Reverence is fatal to literature.

Reverence is fatal to literature.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the...

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.