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George Eliot

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The pen name of Mary Anne Evans who was an English novelist.. (1819–1880)


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Quote Left Consequences are unpitying. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. Quote Right
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Quote Left 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 not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame. Quote Right
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Quote Left Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. Quote Right
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Quote Left What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen each other ... to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs