Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out …

E. M. Forster
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better. ✨ E. M. Forster (2013). Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), p.30, Delphi Classics
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