Being Maurice

Misty 2022-03-24 09:03:03

Clive should not be blamed. The rules and responsibilities of this world imprison our dreams. I think it is not that Clive is unwilling to pursue his own happiness, but that he cannot.
He compromised his life, but not his heart, so he still left himself a spiritual pure land to mourn his Maurice. Just still have to face the bleak life outside the window.
From another perspective, it's his choice. If you are not brave enough, how can you be worthy of your dreams, so you can only leave such a hidden hatred.
I have left you, and I will spend the rest of my life half asleep.

Maurice on the contrary has a brave heart.
He is confused, struggling and suffering, but he is getting to know himself more and more. He is uncompromising. In his persistent exploration, he is loyal to his heart and becomes his true self. How precious, but it is like an incredible fairy tale.
However, when you understand that the author is EM Foster, and that this novel is his heart song, you will understand.
It was as ideal as fiction, because it was his ideal, and he worked so hard for it.
That alone is admirable.
I guess till the end of his day, he shall say with peace, I live my whole life awake being who I am.

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Maurice quotes

  • Alec Scudder: Tomorrow's Thursday. Friday's packing. Saturday's Southampton, so it's goodbye, Old England.

    Maurice Hall: You mean that you and I shan't meet again after now?

    Alec Scudder: That's right, you've got it quite correct.

    Maurice Hall: Stay with me.

    Alec Scudder: Stay? Miss my boat? You daft? Of all the bloody rubbish. Order me about again, you would.

    Maurice Hall: It's a chance in a thousand we met. You know it. Why don't you stay?

    Alec Scudder: Stay? With you? How? And where? With your Ma? Oh yeah. What would she say if she saw me? All rough and ugly the way I am. My people wouldn't take to you one bit. I don't blame them, either. And how would you run your job, I'd like to know?

    Maurice Hall: I shall chuck it.

    Alec Scudder: Your job in the City? What gives you money and position? You talk like a man who's never had to earn his living.

    Maurice Hall: You can do anything. Once you know what it is. We can live without money, without people. We can live without position. We're not fools. We're both strong. There'd be some place we could go.

    Alec Scudder: Wouldn't work, Maurice. Be the ruin of

    [pauses; sits down]

    Alec Scudder: us both. Can't you see?

  • Alec Scudder: Now, we shan't never be parted. It's finished.