Edward Morgan Forster: Frasi in inglese (pagina 2)

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“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View

“Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View

“Only connect!”

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E.M. Forster libro Casa Howard

Origine: Howards End

“By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”

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E.M. Forster libro Casa Howard

Origine: Howards End (1910), Ch. 22
Contesto: 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.

“It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View (1908), Ch.1

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote, and brings to birth in us also the creative impulse.”

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E.M. Forster

"Anonymity: An Enquiry"
Origine: Two Cheers for Democracy (1951)

“Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Variante: No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
Origine: A Room with a View

“I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals.”

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E.M. Forster libro Passaggio in India

Origine: A Passage to India

“You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19
Contesto: 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 from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

“I suppose I shall have to live now”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View

“Then she generated the light, and the sight of her room, flooded with radiance and studded with electric buttons, revived her. There were buttons and switches everywhere — buttons to call for food for music, for clothing. There was the hot-bath button, by pressure of which a basin of (imitation) marble rose out of the floor, filled to the brim with a warm deodorized liquid. There was the cold-bath button. There was the button that produced literature. and there were of course the buttons by which she communicated with her friends. The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.”

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E.M. Forster libro The Machine Stops

Origine: The Machine Stops (1909), Ch. 1

“Then make my boy think like us. Make him realize that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

A Room with a View (1908)

“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”

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E.M. Forster libro Maurice

Origine: Maurice

“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 from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

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E.M. Forster libro Camera con vista

Origine: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19

“A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver”

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E.M. Forster libro Aspetti del romanzo

in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
Origine: Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter One: Introductory

“So two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.”

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What I Believe (1938)
Contesto: Whether Parliament is either a representative body or an efficient one is questionable, but I value it because it criticizes and talks, and because its chatter gets widely reported. So two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three.