Quotes - Camille Showing 1-30 of 52

#1

“Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

#2

“I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity—how ill they sit on the face, say, of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.”
― E. M. Forster

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#3

“I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.”
― E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

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#4

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

tags: advice-for-daily-living, fashion

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#5

“For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.”
― E.M.Forster

tags: where-angels-fear-to-tread

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#6

“There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.”
― E.M. Forster

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#7

“One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.”
― E.M. Forster

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#8

“Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand! ”
― E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

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#9

“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.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: friend, life

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#10

“We move between two darknesses.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

tags: mind, spirit

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#11

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
― E. M. Forster

tags: gustave-flaubert, misattributed, paul-valery, writing

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#12

“You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

tags: homosexual, love

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#13

“I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: death, england, homophobia, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, maurice-novel, novels

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#14

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”
― E.M. Forster

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#15

“The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.”
― E.M. Forster

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#16

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

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#17

“The stories of Harmonius and Aristogeiton, of Phaedrus of the Theban Band were well enough for those whose hearts were empty, but no substitute for life. That Clive should occasionally prefer them puzzled him.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

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#18

“affection explains everything”
― E.M. Forster

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#19

“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.”
― E.M. Forster

tags: fiction, gay-men, homosexuality, lgbt-literature, love, maurice-novel

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#20

“I knew you read the Symposium in the vac," he said in a low voice.
Maurice felt uneasy.
"Then you understand - without me saying more - "
"How do you mean?"
Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with eyes that had gone intensely blue he whispered, "I love you.”
― E. M. Forster, Maurice

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#21

“In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him.”
― E. M. Forster

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#23

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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#24

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

tags: friends, humor, people

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#25

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: humor, love, romantic, women

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#26

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: books, library, reading

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#27

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#28

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: husband, marriage, opening-lines, wife

8026 likes

#29

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
― Jane Austen

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#30

“Angry people are not always wise.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: anger, jane-austen, wisdom

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#31

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: men, mountains, rocks