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They kissed each other with a deep joy

Quote byGeorge Eliot · 1819–1880

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Adam Bede (1859).

English (original)

They kissed each other with a deep joy. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

— George Eliot

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