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Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her… — Charles Dickens

Novel · Coming of age story

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her!

Charles Dickens
Great Expectations · 1861
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Topic
VulnerabilityCommitmentLove
Statement type
Orders and commands
Genre
Coming of age story
Medium
Novel
Time
1861
Person
Charles Dickens
Provenance
Current citation
Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.
Original citation
Dickens, Charles. "Great Expectations." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, 30 Mar. 1861, issue 17, ch. 29.

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