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“Too late... everything's always too late.”
“Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”
“... And now we shan't be parted no more, and that's finished.”
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”
“He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.”
“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and...”
“There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to itlovenobilitybig spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of...”
“People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design there came by no process of reason a con...”
“He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice ou...”
“If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.”
“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.”
“He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurices loneliness: it increased.”
“The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.”
“He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so muc...”
“He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very well, you're clever, we knowbut come!" It haunte...”
“Love had failed. Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. it could not do things.”
“In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nation...”
“A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gri...”
“Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it....”
