A Passage To India Quotes

“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that the saints retreat into the Himalayas.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“And he felt dubious and discontented suddenly, and wondered whether he was really and truly successful as a human being.”
― E. M. Forster

“Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?”
― E M Forster

“নিজেকে "এ প্যাসেজ টু ইণ্ডিয়া"র নায়ক আজিজের মতন মনে হচ্ছে!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque