
Maurice: A Novel

Dear Sir, let me share with you once before leaving Old England if it is not asking to much. I have key, will let you in. I leave per Ss Normannia Aug 29. I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms round you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say. I am perfectly aware
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His whole life he had known things but not known them—it was the great defect in his character.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
He would not—and this was the test—pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He longed to embrace them and mingle his being with theirs. Now that the man who returned his love had been lost, he admitted this.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
“Maurice, Maurice, I care a little bit for you, you know, or I wouldn’t stand what you have told me.” Maurice opened his hand. Luminous petals appeared in it. “You care for me a little bit, I do think,” he admitted, “but I can’t hang all my life on a little bit. You don’t. You hang yours on Anne. You don’t worry whether your relation with her is pl
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god maurice really went off on this
while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
But when he opened his eyes it was to the knowledge that love had died, so that he wept when his friend kissed him. Each kindness increased his suffering,
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
He and the beloved would vanish utterly—would continue neither in Heaven nor on Earth.
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
went a whoring
E.M. Forster • Maurice: A Novel
“Mother, who toom?” “You will say ‘Who toom’ as a joke too often.”