I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. - E. M. Forster

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Had she only realized that it is only hypocrites who cannot forgive hypocrisy, whereas those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others – then the bitter flow of her thoughts might have been stopped and the catastrophe averted. But it was not conceivable to her that he should forgive – or that she should accept forgiveness, for to her forgiveness meant a triumph of one person over another.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.