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A review by headingnorth
Middlemarch by George Eliot
3.0
3.5 My thoughts are here.
p. 194 "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."
p. 299 "Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy conscience heareth innuendos."
p. 498 "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
p. 838 "For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it."
p. 194 "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."
p. 299 "Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy conscience heareth innuendos."
p. 498 "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
p. 838 "For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it."