We move between two darknesses.
E.M. ForsterI have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
E.M. ForsterThe sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
E.M. ForsterSo abased, so monotonous is everything that meets the eye, that when the Ganges comes down it might be expected to wash the excrescence back into the soil. Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, welling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.
E.M. ForsterAt Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.
E.M. ForsterLife is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E.M. ForsterA funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
E.M. ForsterDeath destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.
E.M. ForsterMots clés truth
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
E.M. ForsterItalian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager's mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.
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