“ For literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil. E.M. Forster
“ Durham no podía esperar. La gente los rodeaba, pero con ojos que se habían vuelto intensamente azules murmuró:—Que te amo.Maurice se escandalizó, se horrorizó. Se estremeció hasta las raíces de su alm… E.M. Forster
“ She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words. E.M. Forster
“ Consequently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off. E.M. Forster
“ It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficu… E.M. Forster
“ …But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means. E.M. Forster
“ London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmop… E.M. Forster
“ Sensual and spiritual are not easy words to use; that there are, perhaps, not twoAphrodites, but one Aphrodite with a Janus face. E.M. Forster
“ You cannot be friends either with boy or man unless you give yourself away in the process, and Mr. Pembroke did not commend this. He, for “personal intercourse,” substituted the safer “personal influe… E.M. Forster
“ Rickie had a young man's reticence. He generally spoke of “a friend,” “a person I know,” “a place I was at.” When the book of life is opening, our readings are secret, and we are unwilling to give cha… E.M. Forster
“ In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations w… E.M. Forster
“ Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My law… E.M. Forster
“ Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things. E.M. Forster
“ Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what… E.M. Forster
“ She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition. E.M. Forster
“ As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around her… E.M. Forster
“ I did not fear that I might tread upon a live rail and be killed. I feared something far more intangible-doing what was not contemplated by the Machine. Then I said to myself, “Man is the measure”, an… E.M. Forster
