Oh, hang it all! what's the good—I mean, the good of living in a room for ever? There one goes on day after day, same old game, same up and down to town, until you forget there is any other game. You ought to see once in a way what's going on outside, if it's only nothing particular after all.
E.M. ForsterNot even to herself dare she blame Helen. She could not assess her trespass by any moral code; it was everything or nothing. Morality can tell us that murder is worse than stealing, and group most sins in an order all must approve, but it cannot group Helen. The surer its pronouncements on this point, the surer may we be that morality is not speaking. Christ was evasive when they questioned Him. It is those that cannot connect who hasten to cast the first stone.
E.M. ForsterBecause a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping.
E.M. ForsterAziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
E.M. ForsterIt will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E.M. ForsterYou can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.
E.M. ForsterHe did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.
E.M. ForsterDo you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.
E.M. ForsterThe issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.
E.M. ForsterTags: memory public-opinion importance issues relevance
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god--not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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