E.M. Forster
Quotes
"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-"
He knew what it was, it reminded him of nothing horrible. But he was afraid.
He had accomplished an act of creation, and as he did so Death turned her head away.
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
What was the use of money-grubbing, eating, and playing games? That was all he did or had ever done.
What a solid young citizen he looked- quiet, honourable, prosperous without vulgarity. On such does England rely. Was it conceivable that on Sunday last he had nearly assaulted a boy?
Dr. Barry went on lecturing him, and under the cover of a friendly manner said much that gave pain.
A refined nature would have behaved better and perhaps have suffered less.
Each human being seemed new, and terrified him: he spoke to a race whose nature and numbers were unknown, and whose very food tasted poisonous.
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
It had not occurred to him before that neither he nor his friend would leave life behind him.
Maurice did not interrupt: it was all charming nonesense to him.
