George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
women history historical
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
mind may invisible
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.
love life relationship
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.
best-friend friendship relationship
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
views perspective mind
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.