E. M. Forster Quotes

But The Poetry Of That Kiss, The Wonder Of It, The Magic That There Was In Life For Hours After It--who Can Describe That? It Is So Easy For An Englishman To Sneer At These Chance Collisions Of Human Beings. To The Insular Cynic And The Insular Moralist They Offer An Equal Opportunity. It Is So Easy To Talk Of "passing Emotion," And How To Forget How Vivid The Emotion Was Ere It Passed. Our Impulse To Sneer, To Forget, Is At Root A Good One. We Recognize That Emotion Is Not Enough, And That Men And Women Are Personalities Capable Of Sustained Relations, Not Mere Opportunities For An Electrical Discharge. Yet We Rate The Impulse Too Highly. We Do Not Admit That By Collisions Of This Trivial Sort The Doors Of Heaven May Be Shaken Open.

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