Heart Quotes by E.M. Forster

10 Heart quotes by E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster’s keen eye for social nuance shines in this short set of ten quotes, each turning toward how the heart shapes our bonds and the quiet moments between people.

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“The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.”

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“Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.”

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“Conversation was tedious; she wanted something big, and she believed that it would have come to her on the windswept platform of…

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“Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.”

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“She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.”

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“Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...”

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“Disaster had shown her her limitations, and he realized now what a fine loyal character she was. Her humility was touching. She…

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“There had always been something to worry him ever since he could remember, always something that distracted him in the pursuit of…

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“Petty unselfishness,” she repeated. “I had got an idea that every one here spent their lives in making little sacrifices for objects…

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“Her life, he saw, was without meaning. To what purpose was her diplomacy, her insincerity, her continued repression of vigour? Did they…

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