To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
("Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life")
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.George Eliot
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
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Dorothea, he said to himself, was for ever enthroned in his soul: no other woman could sit higher than her footstool...
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Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her- that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
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He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.
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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
George Eliot
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