E. M. Forster
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Why can't we be friends now? said the other, holding him affectionately. It's what I want. It's what you want. But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices No, not yet, and the sky said No, not there. ✨ E. M. Forster (2010). A Passage to India, p.322, RosettaBooks

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