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  1. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Meanwhile, in Genoa, the noons were getting hotter, the converging outer roads getting deeper with white dust, the oleanders in the tubs along the wayside gardens looking more and more like fatigued holiday-makers, and the sweet evening changing her office - scattering abroad those whom the mid-day had sent under shelter, and sowing all paths with happy social sounds, little tinklings of mule-bells and whirrings of thrumbed strings, light footsteps and voices, if not leisurely, then with the hurry of pleasure in them; while the encircling heights, crowned with forts, skirted with fine dwellings and gardens, seemed also to come forth and gaze in fulness of beauty after their long siesta, till all strong colour melted in the stream of moonlight which made the streets a new spectacle with shadows, both still and moving, on cathedral steps and against the facades of massive palaces; and then slowly with the descending moon all sank in deep night and silence, and nothing shone but the port lights of the great Lanterna in the blackness below, and the glimmering stars in the blackness above.
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  2. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    He yearned with a poet's yearning for the wide sky, the far-reaching vista of bridges, the tender and fluctuating lights on the water which seems to breathe with a life that can shiver and mourn, be comforted and rejoice."
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  3. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    This awakening of a new interest-this passing from the supposition that we hold the right opinions on a subject we are careless about, to a sudden care for it, and a sense that our opinions were ignorance-is an effectual remedy for ennui, which, unhappily, cannot be secured on a physician's prescription;
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  4. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
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  5. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance of fixed laws: they are the voice of sensibilities as various as our memories.
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  6. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Imagination is often truer than fact," said Gwendolen, decisively, though she could no more have explained these glib words than if they had been Coptic or Etruscan. "I shall be so glad to learn all about Tasso-and his madness especially. I suppose poets are always a little mad." "To be sure-'the poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling'; and somebody says of Marlowe- 'For that fine madness still he did maintain, Which always should possess the poet's brain.'" "But it was not always found out, was it?" said Gwendolen innocently. "I suppose some of them rolled their eyes in private. Mad people are often very cunning.
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  7. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:-in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures. To glory in a prophetic vision of knowledge covering the earth, is an easier exercise of believing imagination than to see its beginning in newspaper placards, staring at you from the bridge beyond the corn-fields; and it might well happen to most of us dainty people that we were in the thick of the battle of Armageddon without being aware of anything more than the annoyance of a little explosive smoke and struggling on the ground immediately about us.
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  8. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.
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  9. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Gwendolen would not have liked to be an object of disgust to this husband whom she hated: she liked all disgust to be on her side.
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  10. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    i am always bored." {gwendolen harleth}
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  11. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.
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  12. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.
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