E. M. Forster Quotes - Page 16

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• [...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.

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  Christian, Running, Jesus

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.243, Stanford University Press

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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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• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

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  Sex, Believe, Fall

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 396, to Eric Fletcher, July 9, 1951.

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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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• As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

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  Jobs, Long, Would Be

  "Aspects of the Novel". Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.

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• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

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  People, Might, Individual

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• Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

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  Past, Clouds, Students

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• Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.

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  Sex, Age, Mating

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.78, RosettaBooks

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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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• 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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• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

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  Eye, People, Looks

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

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  Artist, Creative, Criticism

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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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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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

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  Travel, Adventure, Sunshine

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

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  Squash, Literature, Ifs

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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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• Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

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  Peace, War, Incredibles

  "Howard's End".

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