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E. M. Forster Quotes

E. M. Forster quotes

English Novelist January 1, 1879 – June 7, 1970

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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
E. M. Forster quote: "Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more..."
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land. E. M. Forster
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer E. M. Forster
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! E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into..."
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can..."
You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to..."
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
And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind -- the knowledge that they could never be parted because their love was rooted in common things. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your..."
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something..."
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love..."
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along-..."
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love. E. M. Forster
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. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet..."
Whom does Love concern beyond the beloved and the lover? Yet his impact deluges a hundred shores. E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster quote: "It isn't possible to love and to part."
It isn't possible to love and to part. E. M. Forster

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