Il vento le scompigliava i capelli, il sole li glorificava.
E.M. ForsterTags: vento bellezza capelli sole
He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we know—but come!" It haunted him so that he watched for it while his brain and tongue were busy, and when it came he felt himself replying, "I'll come—I didn't know."
"You can't help yourself now. You must come."
"I don't want to help myself."
"Come then."
He did come. He flung down all the barriers—not at once, for he did not live in a house that can be destroyed in a day.
Tags: love lovers barriers forster maurice
Don’t you think there are two great
things in life that we ought to aim at—truth and kindness? Let’s
have both if we can, but let’s be sure of having one or the other.
Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.
E.M. ForsterTags: boys
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
E.M. ForsterTags: transparency complaining therapy intimacy-self-sacrifice
She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither the heart nor the brain, and march to their destiny by catch-words. The armies are full of pleasant and pious folk. But they have yielded to the only enemy that matters — the enemy within. They have sinned against passion and truth, and vain will be their strife after virtue. As the years pass, they are censured. Their pleasantry and their piety show cracks, their wit becomes cynicism, their unselfishness hypocrisy; they feel and produce discomfort wherever they go.
E.M. ForsterWhen you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
E.M. ForsterTags: love despair separation parting-ways
Epilogues are for Tolstoy
E.M. Forster...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.
E.M. ForsterIt all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.
E.M. ForsterTags: affection
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