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Old men's eyes are like old men's memories they are strongest for things a long way off.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
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