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E. M. Forster — Portrait after a picture by Dora Carrington (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

E. M. Forster

English novelist

1879–1970

29 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and Philosophy.

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), Ch. 2
- Love
It isn’t possible to love and to 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.
A Room with a View (1908), Part Two, Chapter XIXIn context
- Love
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Howards End (1910), Chapter 19In context
- Friendship
- Love
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. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.
Howards End (1910), Chapter 22In context
- Love
God has put us on earth to love our neighbours and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
A Passage to India (1924), Part I: Mosque, Chapter VIn context
- God
- Love

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