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Middlemarch

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of

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George Eliot (8)Mary (1)

“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Hesitations, Escape

“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Music, Poetry

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Distrust

“...what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude, Alone, Distrust

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Middlemarch, Uplifting Literature

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Grief, Grieving, Moving On

“'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!' 'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.' 'Impossible...'”

— George Eliot, Mary, amazon.com

Tagged: I Love You Dad, Fatherhood, Relationships, husbands, Family

“Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different fro…”

— George Eliot, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, What It Feels Like To Die