What is better than to love and live with the loved? But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
Source:Letter to the Hon. Mrs. Robert Lytton (now Lady Lytton) (July 25, 1871), George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals, Chapter XVI
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