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When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

E. M. Forster
Blessed, Past, Long
"Maurice". Book by E. M. Forster, part two, 1971.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

E. M. Forster
Fear, Past, Freedom Of Speech
E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

E. M. Forster
Passion, Sleep, Past

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

E. M. Forster
Past, Clouds, Students

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