M. Forster
M. Forster
life memories understanding
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
believe caring people
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.
love romantic romance
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
greatness men blood
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
beauty literature connections
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
believe soul gains
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
mother war grateful
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
friendship trust real-friends
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
friendship country cheating
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
football motivation passion
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
break-up letting-go breakup
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
america rather sure
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.
college inmates love mere oxford perhaps rather wants
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
life teach
Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.