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E. M. Forster Quotes

E. M. Forster quotes about nature

English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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E. M. Forster quote: "Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end..."
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. E. M. Forster
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must... E. M. Forster
Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that has been fabricated by historians. Actual life is full of false clues and sign-posts that lead nowhere. With infinite effort we nerve ourselves for a crisis that never comes. The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him... E. M. Forster
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it. E. M. Forster
Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it..."
A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. E. M. Forster
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. E. M. Forster
Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way. E. M. Forster
When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god--not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her. E. M. Forster
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Nature pulls one way and human nature another."
Nature pulls one way and human nature another. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way..."
I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. E. M. Forster

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