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It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.
George Eliot
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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?
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It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
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There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate.
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.
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