A Room with a View

by E.M. Forster

Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice.

There’s enough sorrow in the world, isn’t there, without trying to invent it.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in every one, even if you do not approve of them.”

“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows.