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George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Book by George Eliot · 23 quotes · Compassion, Mind, Animal

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“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”