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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

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Love, College, Oxford

E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.96, Xist Publishing

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She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

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Love, Passion, Men

Howards End (1910) ch. 22 (the title-page also has "Only connect...")

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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

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Sorrow, Trying, World

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.371, Delphi Classics

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For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

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Gratitude, Children, Love Life

E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.109, Booklassic

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He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale between two worlds of dust. Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.

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Loneliness, Dust, Hands

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The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

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Culture, World, Kingdoms

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.25, 谷月社

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I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

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Lying, Thinking, Littles

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view.

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Flower, Blue, Views

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.60, 谷月社

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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

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Travel, Florence, Ease

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.

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Believe, Book, Blue

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.407, Delphi Classics

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Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

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Horse, Rocks, Views

E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

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Hands, Shields, Faces

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

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Men, Use, Function

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

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Love Is, Soul, Wish

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.166, Courier Corporation

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Do you remember Italy?

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Remember

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.162, Courier Corporation

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He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

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Action, Reason, Passing

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Do you suppose there's any difference between spring in nature and spring in man? But there we go, praising the one and condemning the other as improper, ashamed that the same laws work eternally through both.

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Spring, Men, Law

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.56, 谷月社

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It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

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Should Have, Practice, Desire

E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.463, Delphi Classics

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Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

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Real, Heart, Enemy

E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.144, 谷月社

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Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

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Girl, Men, Room With A View

E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

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Believe, Men, Unhappy

E. M. Forster (2015). “The Machine Stops”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

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Inspirational, Inspiring, Soul

E. M. Forster (2015). “The Longest Journey”, p.246, Booklassic

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I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
The Format, in "Inches and Failing".
Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

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Life, Nice, Being In Love

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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

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Fall, School, Justice

Abinger Harvest "Notes on English Character" (1936)

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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

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Moving, Two, Darkness

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Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970
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