This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men... - E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

"This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does."He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms."

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"This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way then he does."He thought. "Yes -- really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms."
"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
"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. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."
"It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth."