Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
只要把日常的平实与内心的激情连接起来,两者便都能升华,人的爱也将显出最高的境界。不要再支离破碎地生活。
— E. M. Forster · Howards End (1910) · Chapter 22 —
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
只要把日常的平实与内心的激情连接起来,两者便都能升华,人的爱也将显出最高的境界。不要再支离破碎地生活。