Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas.
E.M. ForsterTags: a-passage-to-india
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
E.M. ForsterI only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
E.M. ForsterThe final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
E.M. ForsterDo you remember Italy?
E.M. ForsterOne person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
E.M. ForsterBut Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
E.M. ForsterTags: dystopia
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!
E.M. ForsterTags: travel life-lessons live-life
-Bad dreams?
-Just dreams.
Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.
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