“ I cannot make myself love the people I have never loved—is it not enough that I lost the life I did love? ”
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876). copy citation
Author | George Eliot |
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Source | Daniel Deronda |
Topic | love life |
Date | 1876 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7469/pg7469-images.html |
Context
“My father may have God on his side. This man's words were like lion's teeth upon me. My father's threats eat into me with my pain. If I tell everything—if I deliver up everything—what else can be demanded of me? I cannot make myself love the people I have never loved—is it not enough that I lost the life I did love?"
She had leaned forward a little in her low-toned pleading, that seemed like a smothered cry: her arms and hands were stretched out at full length, as if strained in beseeching, Deronda's soul was absorbed in the anguish of compassion.”
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