We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving. - George Henry Lewes

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We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

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About George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes (April 18, 1817 – November 30, 1878) was an English philosopher, biographer, novelist, and literary and dramatic critic. He was also controversially long engaged in an open marriage with his legal wife and openly lived with George Eliot (a.k.a. Mary Anne Evans) in a romantic relationship.

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I wish to call special attention to the psychological fact, that fairies and demons, remote as they are from experience, are not created by a more vigorous effort of imagination than milk maids and poachers. The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

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