Maurice (novel) Quotes
English novels
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“Lust is negligible when absent.”
“They kissed, scarcely wishing it.”
“"I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort."”
“"The worst thing I could do for you is to discuss it."”
“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
“Maurice did not interrupt: it was all charming nonesense to him.”
“Everyone and everything had suddenly harmonized. Was this the world?”
“The man was bourgeois, unfinished and stupid- the worst of confidants.”
“A refined nature would have behaved better and perhaps have suffered less.”
“He could control the body; it was the tainted soul that mocked his prayers.”
“He knew what it was, it reminded him of nothing horrible. But he was afraid.”
“"For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it."”
“You could call your cousin a shit if you liked, but not a eunuch. Rotten style!”
“He had pretended to himself that he had enjoyed it, and thus increased his misery.”
“He had accomplished an act of creation, and as he did so Death turned her head away.”
“He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.”
“"I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone."”
“No argument ever touched her, because she was tenderness, who reconciles present with past.”