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“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

E.M. Forster

Source: A Room with a View / Howards End

“We move between two darknesses.”

E.M. Forster book Aspects of the Novel

Source: Aspects of the Novel

“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”

E.M. Forster book Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“All men are equal - all men, that is, who possess umbrellas.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

E.M. Forster

“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

E.M. Forster book A Passage to India

Source: A Passage to India

“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 book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”

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“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 book Where Angels Fear to Tread

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread

“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“Because I say so little you think I don't feel. I care a lot.”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

Source: Maurice

“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 leave.”

E.M. Forster book Howards End

Source: Howards End