“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

— George Eliot

Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)

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