M. Forster
M. Forster
children good-luck world
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
art sadness should
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
asking literature causes
But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
literature ought
I am certainly an ought and not a must.
squash literature ifs
Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
men symphony sublime
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
real journey soul
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
real love-you thinking
He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
life important relation
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
life satisfaction ordinary
Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.
taken successful men
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.
delicacy room-with-a-view
Are not beauty and delicacy the same?
america interesting looks
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
running hero plums
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.