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The quote suggests that understanding alone is not enough to guarantee happiness. It implies that a person’s inner thoughts and feelings are only part of life, and real happiness depends on more than private insight.
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About E.M. Forster
English author
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is known for his novels, including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. He also wrote short stories, essays, speeches, broadcasts, biographies and pageant plays, and he co-authored the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd. His fiction often looks at class differences and hypocrisy, and his humanist outlook is central to his work.
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