"Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful.It is on my muddles that I look back with horror—on the things that I might have avoided.We can help one another but little.I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life,but I know better now,and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle... (查看原文)
"Don't trust me, Miss Honeychurch.Though life is very glorious, it is difficult."..."'Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.' I think he puts it well. Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along—especially the function of Love." Then he burst out excitedly; "That's it; that's what I mean.You love George!"And after his long preamble, the three words burst against Lucy like waves from the open sea. (查看原文)
...He is already part of you. Though you fly to Greece, and never see him again, or forget his very name, George will work in your thoughts till you die. It isn't possible to love and to 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." (查看原文)
Then she lost her balance. She cried: "If you think I am in love with some one else, you are very much mistaken."
"Of course I don't think that. You are not that kind, Lucy."
"Oh, yes, you do think it. It's your old idea, the idea that has kept Europe back—I mean the idea that women are always thinking of men. If a girl breaks off her engagement, every one says: 'Oh, she had some one else in her mind; she hopes to get some one else.'It's disgusting, brutal! As if a girl can't break it off for the sake of freedom." (查看原文)
