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Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH, mais conhecido por E. M. Forster, foi um romancista britânico.

✵ 1. Janeiro 1879 – 7. Junho 1970  •  Outros nomes Е. М. Форстер
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Edward Morgan Forster Frases famosas

“Se eu tivesse de escolher entre trair a minha pátria e trair um amigo, esperaria ter a coragem necessária para trair a minha pátria.”

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“A morte destrói um homem: a ideia da morte salva-o.”

Edward Morgan Forster livro Howards End

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him
Howards End (1910), Chapter 27

“Obras de arte, na minha opinião, são os únicos objetos no mundo material que possuem ordem interna e isso porque, apesar de não acreditar que só a arte importa, acredito que a arte vale à pena pela arte.”

Edward Morgan Forster

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.
"Two cheers for democracy‎" - Volume 11, Página 95, Edward Morgan Forster - Harcourt, Brace, 1951 - 363 páginas

“Poderia ter sido um escritor mais famoso se tivesse escrito e publicado mais, mas o sexo não permitiu esta última”

Edward Morgan Forster livro The Life to Come

I should have been a more famous writer if I had written or rather published more, but sex has prevented the latter.
"The Life to Come: And Other Stories‎" - Página xiv, de E. M. Forster - Norton, 1987, ISBN 0393304426, 9780393304428 - 240 páginas

Edward Morgan Forster: Frases em inglês

“But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Passage to India

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“The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.”

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E.M. Forster livro Howards End

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“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”

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E.M. Forster livro Howards End

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“I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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“Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Room with a View

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“Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.”

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E.M. Forster livro Where Angels Fear to Tread

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“I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Passage to India

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“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Room with a View

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“Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.”

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“We move between two darknesses.”

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E.M. Forster livro Aspects of the Novel

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“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Passage to India

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“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”

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E.M. Forster livro Where Angels Fear to Tread

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“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Room with a View

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“Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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“To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.”

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E.M. Forster livro Howards End

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“Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.”

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E.M. Forster livro A Passage to India

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“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

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E.M. Forster livro Howards End

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“I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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“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.”

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“You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.”

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E.M. Forster livro Where Angels Fear to Tread

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“Nothing's the same for anyone. That's why life's this Hell, if you do a thing you're damned, and if you don't you're damned….”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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“It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

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E.M. Forster livro Howards End

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“I was yours once 'till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now - I can't hang about whining forever - and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness?”

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E.M. Forster livro Maurice

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