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Henry Fielding’s 1751 novel about marriage, debt, temptation, loyalty and social pressure

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Love, grief, marriage, trust, self-deception, responsibility and the gap between intention and conduct.

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those know little of real love or grief who do not know how much we deceive ourselves when we pretend to aim at the cure of either.

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“those know little of real love or grief who do not know how much we deceive ourselves when we pretend to aim at the cure of either.”

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Booth recognizes that people may claim to be curing love or grief while unconsciously choosing actions that keep those feelings alive.

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Amelia, Book II, Chapter III, “The narrative continued. More of the touchstone,” Project Gutenberg #6098, George Saintsbury edited witness. Captain Booth says the love / grief sentence while recounting his failed attempts to cure himself of attachment to Amelia. It is fictional retrospective speech, not clinical guidance about grief or relationships.

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