M. Forster
M. Forster
life food sleep
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
believe serious-things intimate
For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.
lying believe people
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
art believe order
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
stars wind tree
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
love passion fragments
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
adventure muddle
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
beautiful thinking voice
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.
christianity ends obliged
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
men literature agnostic
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
life-and-love giving want
Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.
care may gestures
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.
distance gentleman ears
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
romance pairs unexpected
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.