“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
— George Eliot“The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.”
— George Eliot“It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.”
— George EliotThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow.
— George Eliot