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“I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.”

Quote by George Eliot

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George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans, was a renowned 19th-century British novelist. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical exploration of social issues. With her unique narrative techniques and rich emotional expression, she has had a profound impact on literature. more

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“It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.”

Self Happens Past Sorrow Disgusting Looking Back Our Past Mixtures Measuring

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.”

Way Persons Habit Regard Offensive Injured Politeness Amiable Amends Making Amends

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Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.”

Principles Paid Conviction Dinner Debt

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink.”

Colour Favourite

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“I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.”

Thinking Writing Long Art Important Book Ideas Use Together Given Loses Effects Personality Sight Impression Quotations Climax Art Of Writing

Author:George Eliot

“There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.”

Able Reading Hunger Hungry Hungry For Knowledge

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.”

Should Mind Done Whole Reading Mere Whole Life Absorption

Book:George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals

Source: George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals

“Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.”

Science Company Conscience Selfish Obligation Alas

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.”

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Book:The Spanish gypsy

Source: The Spanish gypsy

“Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.”

Men Stills Sometimes Mistake Genius Men And Women Longing Vague Symptoms Uneasy

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus