I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secreat understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but power to endure, and they can take a joke.
E.M. ForsterMots clés sensitive aristocracy considerate e-m forster pluck
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E.M. ForsterMots clés living
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
E.M. ForsterMots clés friendship
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E.M. ForsterPerhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.
E.M. ForsterBy the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. ForsterMots clés a-room-with-a-view
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E.M. ForsterMots clés poems
Everything must be like something, so what is this ike?
E.M. ForsterFor it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
E.M. ForsterMots clés where-angels-fear-to-tread
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
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