be7630b
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The house was very quiet, and the fog--we are in November now--pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.
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autumn
autumnal
description
e-m-forster
fall
howards-end
november
quiet
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E.M. Forster |
6d71de7
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Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.
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e-m-forster
howards-end
novel
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E.M. Forster |
5513350
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London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract. She has never known the clear-cut armies of the purer air. Leonard hurried through her tinted wonders, very much part of the picture. His was a grey life, and to brighten it he had ruled off a few corners for romance.
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colors
description
e-m-forster
howards-end
london
nightfall
romance
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E.M. Forster |
bb2d62d
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Here had lived an elder race, to which we look back with disquietude. The country which we visit at week-ends was really a home to it, and the graver sides of life, the deaths, the partings, the yearnings for love, have their deepest expression in the heart of the fields.
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countryside
death
e-m-forster
howards-end
life
love
parting
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E.M. Forster |
575d100
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Tulips were a tray of jewels.
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description
e-m-forster
figurative-language
flowers
howards-end
metaphor
tulips
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E.M. Forster |
018d439
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Then she turned westward, to gaze at the swirling gold. Just where the river rounded the hill the sun caught it. Fairyland must lie above the bend, and its precious liquid was pouring towards them past Charles's bathing shed.
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description
e-m-forster
fairyland
howards-end
lovely
nature
sunlight
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E.M. Forster |
1764b06
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How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself--hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth--their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.
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conflict
e-m-forster
expectations-vs-reality
howards-end
love
the-world
truth
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E.M. Forster |
69fdbef
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"No, it is better not to risk a second interview. I shall always look back on this talk with you as one of the finest things in my life. Really. I mean this. We can never repeat. It has done me real good, and there we had better leave it." "That's rather a sad view of life, surely." "Things so often get spoiled." "I know," flashed Helen. "But people don't."
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e-m-forster
howards-end
never-again
once-in-a-lifetime
preservation
remember
sad
spoiled
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E.M. Forster |