“After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.” LoveLifeHumorTruthSexPleasureLustAngstDon QuixoteBattle Of The SexesDorothea Book:Don Quixote Source: Don Quixote
“... Genius consisting neither in self-conceit nor in humilty, but in a power to making or do, not anything in general, but something in particular.” MiddlemarchDorotheaEliot George Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch
“Rosamund, taken hold of by an emotion stronger than her own--hurried along in a new movement which gave all things some new, awful, undefined aspect--could find no words, but involuntarily she put her lips to Dorothea's forehead which was very near her, and then for a minute the two women clasped each other as if they had been in a shipwreck.” ShipwreckRosamundDorothea Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch