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“It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”

E.M. Forster book The Longest Journey

Source: The Longest Journey

“I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.”

E.M. Forster book Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“… though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”

“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.”

Source: The Life to Come and Other Stories

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

“They had nothing in common but the English language.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”

E.M. Forster book Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread