#philip gardner

[j2parman]

We think more forcefully than we write, there is always part of our thought that remains with us. We hardly ever communicate it plainly: and it is by the spirit of penetration rather than by the clear comprehension of words, that we enter into an author's thought. Meanwhile, as if we were afraid of fully understanding what others think, or of making our own thought understood, we weaken the terms which would have the force to express it.

The Marquis de St. Évremond, quoted by E.M. Forster, Commonplace Book, Stanford, 1981, p. 70 and footnote to p. 70 on pp. 281-282. Forster quotes them in French and the editor, Philip Gardner, gives the English translation.

[danieligbinyemi]

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[j2parman]

The older one grows, the less one values secrecy perhaps, anyhow there is little of me I feel worthwhile to lock up.

E.M. Forster, quoted by Alan Hollinghurst in "Poor Dear, How She Figures!," a review of Philip Gardner, ed., The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster Volumes I-III, Pickering and Chatto, 2011, London Review of Books, 3 January 2013, page 11.