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There are many wonderful mixtures in the world which are all alike called love, and claim the privileges of a sublime rage which is an apology for everything (in literature and the drama).

— George Eliot

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From Chapter XXXI of Middlemarch. This is fictional dialogue or narration; its meaning depends on the surrounding scene, not on treating it as the author’s personal advice.

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Source: Middlemarch , Chapter XXXI

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