Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot
About This Quote

This quote is about the common occurrence of young and inexperienced people to find themselves in a world that is not as they imagined. They may find that their first wife, for instance, does not meet all of their expectations and yet this should not discourage them from loving her. It is important to love all and trust a few.

Source: Middlemarch

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