I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved.
George Eliot · To her friend Georgiana Burne-Jones, in a letter of May 1875.
George Eliot · To her friend Georgiana Burne-Jones, in a letter of May 1875.
More from George Eliot
George Eliot · The narrator on Lydgate and Rosamond falling in love in Middlemarch, chapter 36, 1871.
George Eliot · The narrator after Adam and Dinah agree never to part; the sentence read at weddings goes on "to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting."
George Eliot · Dorothea Brooke's question in the novel; George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.
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