"Naturally, there was a shrinking of courage as misfortune ceased to be a mere announcement, and began to disclose itself as a grievous tyrannical inmate. ”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
Rereading/reviewing parts of Daniel Deronda..
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“Make up your mind to a brief disappointment. Life is full of them. We have all got to be broken in; and this is a mild beginning for you.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
Reviewing, rereading some parts/notes on Daniel Deronda.
Finished; rereading bits. This epigraph feels rather timely:
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:
There, ’mid the throng of hurrying desires
That trample on the dead to seize their spoil,
Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
As exhalations laden with slow death,
And o’er the fairest troop of captured joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot & Terence Cave
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1. "There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives –
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? – an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
“In reading unwelcome news, instead of hearing it, there is the advantage that one avoids a hasty expression of impatience which may afterwards be repented of. ”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
“Clever persons who have nothing else to sell can often put a good price on their absence”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“So pregnant is the divine hope of moral recovery with the energy that fulfils it. So potent in us is the infused action of another soul, before which we bow in complete love.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
“Per pietà non dirmi addio”
“For pity’s sake, do not say goodbye to me.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il Purgatorio
Purgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
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