“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 from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 19

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English novelist 1879–1970

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