M. Forster
M. Forster
let-her-go cried
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!
believe essence romance
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
taken heart eye
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 leave.
shields insult room-with-a-view
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.
play missing exciting
If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
magic identity elbows
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
finding-happiness boxes should
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
sides room-with-a-view everlasting
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
moving two darkness
We move between two darknesses.
thinking people forget
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
night tree sun
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
death men funeral
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.
giving world easier
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.
get-well soul secret
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.