“Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.”

—  George Eliot , book Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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