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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Life
If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: “Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else.” It’s disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can’t break it off for the sake of freedom.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
'I'm a little to blame. I had silly thoughts. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground blue, and for a moment he looked like someone in a book.'
'In a book?'
‘Heroes — gods — the nonsense of schoolgirls.'
'And then?'
'But, Charlotte, you know what happened then.'
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
You have each other and all these woods to walk in, so full of beautiful things; and poor Charlotte has only the water turned off and plumbers. You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She frowns a little — not in anger, but as a brave child frowns when he is trying not to cry.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
As for Charlotte — as for Charlotte, she was exactly the same. It might be possible to be nice to her; it was impossible to love her.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
From Maurice
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Topic: Life
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
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Topic: Death
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
From Howards End
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Topic: Death
I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended. I realised dimly enough that she might take some momentous steps. She has taken it. She has learned — you will let me talk freely, as I have begun freely — she has learned what it is to love: the greatest lesson, some people will tell you, that our earthly life provides. She has learned through you.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete — the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art — throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
How can we return to Nature when we have never been with her?
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He simply enfolded her in his manly arms.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
The old trouble: things won’t fit.’
‘What things?’
‘The things of the universe. It is quite true. They don’t.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself, she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
The world,’ she thought, ‘is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
From Maurice
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Topic: Relationships
The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.
From Maurice
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Topic: Religion
There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
From Maurice
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Topic: Hope
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
From Maurice
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Topic: Life
Conventional, Cecil, you’re that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don’t know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I won’t be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
You talk as if I was a kind of poetess sort of person.’
‘I don’t know that you aren’t. I connect you with a view — a certain type of view. Why shouldn’t you connect me with a room?
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world’s enemy, and she must stifle it.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
I want to be truthful,’ she whispered. ‘It is so hard to be absolutely truthful.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Life
If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: “Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else.” It’s disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can’t break it off for the sake of freedom.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
'I'm a little to blame. I had silly thoughts. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground blue, and for a moment he looked like someone in a book.'
'In a book?'
‘Heroes — gods — the nonsense of schoolgirls.'
'And then?'
'But, Charlotte, you know what happened then.'
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
You have each other and all these woods to walk in, so full of beautiful things; and poor Charlotte has only the water turned off and plumbers. You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She frowns a little — not in anger, but as a brave child frowns when he is trying not to cry.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
As for Charlotte — as for Charlotte, she was exactly the same. It might be possible to be nice to her; it was impossible to love her.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended. I realised dimly enough that she might take some momentous steps. She has taken it. She has learned — you will let me talk freely, as I have begun freely — she has learned what it is to love: the greatest lesson, some people will tell you, that our earthly life provides. She has learned through you.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete — the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art — throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
How can we return to Nature when we have never been with her?
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He simply enfolded her in his manly arms.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
The old trouble: things won’t fit.’
‘What things?’
‘The things of the universe. It is quite true. They don’t.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself, she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
The world,’ she thought, ‘is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
From Maurice
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Topic: Relationships
The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.
From Maurice
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Topic: Religion
There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
From Maurice
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Topic: Hope
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
From Maurice
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Topic: Life
Conventional, Cecil, you’re that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don’t know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I won’t be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
You talk as if I was a kind of poetess sort of person.’
‘I don’t know that you aren’t. I connect you with a view — a certain type of view. Why shouldn’t you connect me with a room?
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world’s enemy, and she must stifle it.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
I want to be truthful,’ she whispered. ‘It is so hard to be absolutely truthful.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Life
If a girl breaks off her engagement, everyone says: “Oh, she had someone else in her mind; she hopes to get someone else.” It’s disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can’t break it off for the sake of freedom.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
'I'm a little to blame. I had silly thoughts. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground blue, and for a moment he looked like someone in a book.'
'In a book?'
‘Heroes — gods — the nonsense of schoolgirls.'
'And then?'
'But, Charlotte, you know what happened then.'
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
You have each other and all these woods to walk in, so full of beautiful things; and poor Charlotte has only the water turned off and plumbers. You are young, dears, and however clever young people are, and however many books they read, they will never guess what it feels like to grow old.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She frowns a little — not in anger, but as a brave child frowns when he is trying not to cry.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
As for Charlotte — as for Charlotte, she was exactly the same. It might be possible to be nice to her; it was impossible to love her.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I foresaw at Florence that her quiet, uneventful childhood must end, and it has ended. I realised dimly enough that she might take some momentous steps. She has taken it. She has learned — you will let me talk freely, as I have begun freely — she has learned what it is to love: the greatest lesson, some people will tell you, that our earthly life provides. She has learned through you.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
The melody rose, unprofitably magical. It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete — the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art — throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
How can we return to Nature when we have never been with her?
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He simply enfolded her in his manly arms.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
The old trouble: things won’t fit.’
‘What things?’
‘The things of the universe. It is quite true. They don’t.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Why? Why were most big things unladylike? Charlotte had once explained to her why. It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself, she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored. Poems had been written to illustrate this point.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
The world,’ she thought, ‘is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Conventional, Cecil, you’re that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don’t know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap up me. I won’t be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
You talk as if I was a kind of poetess sort of person.’
‘I don’t know that you aren’t. I connect you with a view — a certain type of view. Why shouldn’t you connect me with a room?
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world’s enemy, and she must stifle it.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
I want to be truthful,’ she whispered. ‘It is so hard to be absolutely truthful.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
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