George Eliot quote about love from Daniel Deronda - For what is love itself, for the one we love best? —an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? —an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
 George Eliot, Daniel Deronda (1876). copy citation

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Author George Eliot
Source Daniel Deronda
Topic love care joy
Date 1876
Language English
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Context

“But human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. It was no treason to Mirah, but a part of that full nature which made his love for her the more worthy, that his joy in her could hold by its side the care for another. For what is love itself, for the one we love best?—an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
Deronda came twice to Diplow, and saw Gwendolen twice—and yet he went back to town without having told her anything about the change in his lot and prospects. He blamed himself; but in all momentous communication likely to give pain we feel dependent on some preparatory turn of words or associations, some agreement of the other's mood with the probable effect of what we have to impart.” source

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