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Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

E. M. Forster
Heart, Men, Way
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.270, RosettaBooks

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

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Food, Cooking, Spirit

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

E. M. Forster
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

E. M. Forster
Romance, Pairs, Unexpected
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.30, Delphi Classics

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

E. M. Forster
Howards End, Glorious, Gates
Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

E. M. Forster
Half, Hours
E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.273, 谷月社

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

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Honesty, Men, Soul
E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.132, Courier Corporation

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

E. M. Forster
Land, People, Literature
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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. Forster
Magic, Identity, Elbows
E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

E. M. Forster
Writing, Giving, Novel

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these.

E. M. Forster
Stars, Struggle, Wind
E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.129, Xist Publishing

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

E. M. Forster
Writing, Creativity, Creative
Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Gide and George"

It isn't possible to love and to part.

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

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

E. M. Forster
Running, Long, People
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.516, Delphi Classics

Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

E. M. Forster
Adventure, Muddle
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.25, RosettaBooks

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

E. M. Forster
Beautiful, Thinking, Voice

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

E. M. Forster
Victory, Aristocracy, Chaos

We move between two darknesses.

E. M. Forster
Moving, Two, Darkness
E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.76, RosettaBooks

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

E. M. Forster
Distance, Gentleman, Ears
E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.35, RosettaBooks

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

E. M. Forster
Practice, Literature, Life Is
E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.158, Diversion Books

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster
Art, Believe, Order
1951 Two Cheers for Democracy,'Art for Art's Sake'.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

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Atheist, Believe, Mind

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

E. M. Forster
Accomplishment, Intention, Chairs
E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.118, Booklassic

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

E. M. Forster
Beautiful, People, Room With A View
E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

E. M. Forster
Book, Night, Fire

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