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Quotes from Where Angels Fear to Tread — E. M. Forster

1879–1970 England

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This woman was a goddess to the end. For her no love could be degrading: she stood outside all degradation.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)

They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)

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.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)

A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and — by some sad, strange irony — it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905)

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