You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: purpose intention resolve
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.
E.M. ForsterOne minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: live intellectuals nothing ordinary
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E.M. ForsterI hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E.M. ForsterIf you let yourself go I am sure you are sensible. . . . You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.
E.M. ForsterAnd he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: a-passage-to-india
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
E.M. ForsterIt is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.
E.M. ForsterStichwörter: truth paradox understanding
This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does." He thought. "Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.
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