Quote#Love
Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable…
Quote byMary Elizabeth Braddon · 1835–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lady Audley's Secret (1862), Ch. 33.
English (original)
Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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