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Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and — which he held more precious — it gave her shadow. Soon, he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He had no glimpse of the comradeship after which the girl's soul yearned.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He wanted to live now, to win at tennis, to stand for all he was worth in the sun — in the sun which had begun to decline and was shining in her eyes; and he did win.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She might be forgetting her Italy, but she was noticing more things in her England.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
From What I Believe and Other Essays
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Topic: Inspirational
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
From Howards End
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Topic: Philosophical
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
From Maurice
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Topic: Happiness
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
From Aspects of the Novel
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Topic: Education
She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Yet he was doing a fine thing — proving on how little a soul can exist. Fed neither by Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward, a lamp that would have blown out, were materialism true. He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover — the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and suppress any legends about Heaven.
From Maurice
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Topic: Religion
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
From Maurice
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Topic: Happiness
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Life
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.
From Howards End
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Topic: Life
Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this. The song died away; they heard the river, bearing down the snows of winter into the Mediterranean.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Freddy’s a good sort, isn’t he?’
‘Admirable. The sort who has made England what she is.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
It is Fate that I am here,’ persisted George. ‘But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
A young man melancholy because the universe wouldn’t fit, because life was a tangle or a wind, or a Yes, or something!
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
From Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Topic: Relationships
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
From Howards End
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Topic: Relationships
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
From Maurice
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Topic: Happiness
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Topic: Education, Inspirational
But to Cecil, now that he was about to lose her, she seemed each moment more desirable. He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo, she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and — which he held more precious — it gave her shadow. Soon, he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He had no glimpse of the comradeship after which the girl's soul yearned.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
He wanted to live now, to win at tennis, to stand for all he was worth in the sun — in the sun which had begun to decline and was shining in her eyes; and he did win.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She might be forgetting her Italy, but she was noticing more things in her England.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
From What I Believe and Other Essays
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Topic: Inspirational
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
From Howards End
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Topic: Philosophical
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
From Maurice
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Topic: Happiness
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
From Aspects of the Novel
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Topic: Education
She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Yet he was doing a fine thing — proving on how little a soul can exist. Fed neither by Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward, a lamp that would have blown out, were materialism true. He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover — the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and suppress any legends about Heaven.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this. The song died away; they heard the river, bearing down the snows of winter into the Mediterranean.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Freddy’s a good sort, isn’t he?’
‘Admirable. The sort who has made England what she is.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
It is Fate that I am here,’ persisted George. ‘But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
A young man melancholy because the universe wouldn’t fit, because life was a tangle or a wind, or a Yes, or something!
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
From Where Angels Fear to Tread
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Topic: Relationships
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education, Inspirational
But to Cecil, now that he was about to lose her, she seemed each moment more desirable. He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo, she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Italy worked some marvel in her. It gave her light, and — which he held more precious — it gave her shadow. Soon, he detected in her a wonderful reticence. She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci’s, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He had no glimpse of the comradeship after which the girl's soul yearned.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He wanted to live now, to win at tennis, to stand for all he was worth in the sun — in the sun which had begun to decline and was shining in her eyes; and he did win.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
She might be forgetting her Italy, but she was noticing more things in her England.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
From What I Believe and Other Essays
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Inspirational
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
From Aspects of the Novel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Yet he was doing a fine thing — proving on how little a soul can exist. Fed neither by Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward, a lamp that would have blown out, were materialism true. He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover — the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and suppress any legends about Heaven.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
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.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than this. The song died away; they heard the river, bearing down the snows of winter into the Mediterranean.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
She only felt the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Freddy’s a good sort, isn’t he?’
‘Admirable. The sort who has made England what she is.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
It is Fate that I am here,’ persisted George. ‘But you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhappy.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
A young man melancholy because the universe wouldn’t fit, because life was a tangle or a wind, or a Yes, or something!
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
From Where Angels Fear to Tread
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.
From Howards End
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.
From Maurice
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education, Inspirational
But to Cecil, now that he was about to lose her, she seemed each moment more desirable. He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged. From a Leonardo, she had become a living woman, with mysteries and forces of her own, with qualities that even eluded art.
From A Room with a View
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart: men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls; even men might suffer from unexplained desires, and need help. To one of her upbringing, and of her destination, the weakness of men was a truth unfamiliar, but she had surmised it at Florence, when George threw her photographs into the river Arno.
From A Room with a View
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Topic: Education
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