I feel to you as Pippa to her fiancé, only far more nobly, far more deeply, body and soul, no starved medievalism of course, only a – a particular harmony of body and soul that I don’t think women have even guessed. But you know.
E.M. ForsterYou mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’
‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are of age and avoid public indecency, certainly.’
‘Will the law ever be that in England?’
‘I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn to bring out the hero in him
E.M. ForsterHe would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.
E.M. ForsterRonny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form, and condemned as ‘weakening’ any attempt to understand them.
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Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul....
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Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.
E.M. ForsterHe never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.
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But it was the stupidity of passion, which would rather have nothing than a little.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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