Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.
E.M. ForsterGive me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious, but also from what is good.
E.M. ForsterIt's better to be fooled than to be suspicious - that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.
E.M. ForsterBut a lover is dogmatic. To him the world shall be beautiful and pure. When it is not, he ignores it.
E.M. ForsterHe never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.
E.M. ForsterHe has the merit—if it is one—of saying exactly what he means.
E.M. ForsterBut in public who shall express the unseen adequately? It is private life that holds out the mirror to infinity; personal intercourse, and that alone, that ever hints at a personality beyond our daily vision.
E.M. ForsterI will take you by a dear dirty back way, Miss Honeychurch, and if you bring me luck, we shall have an adventure.
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