And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: love sisterhood
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
E.M. ForsterI believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos.
E.M. ForsterI am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: motherhood peace-on-earth
Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: love
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
E.M. ForsterFor that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: leonard-bast
I suppose I shall have to live now
E.M. ForsterFor the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less cynically-we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: where-angels-fear-to-tread languages mis-understandings
Yet complicated people were getting wet - not only the shepherds. For instance, the piano-tuner was sopping. So was the vicar's wife. So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battlesden car. Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: vegetarian wet
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