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Howards End
E.M. Forster
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
“While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea”
“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
“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.”
“She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
“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.”
“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”
“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”
“I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.”
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