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- Herausgeber: BookRix
- Kategorie: Sachliteratur, Reportagen, Biografien
- Sprache: Englisch
"Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult." This book is a collection of the quotes and aphorisms of George Eliot. It grants her reflections on subjects ranging from love, women and men, art and life. The well researched and edited compilation of phrases provides approaching into the way of thinking of George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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George Eliot
Quotes
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG80331 MunichGeorge Eliot: Quotes
By Daniel Coenn
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Copyright © 2014 by Daniel Coenn
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George Eliot: Quotes
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Quotes
“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
“A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.”
“Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.”
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”
“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
“Breed is stronger than pasture.”
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
“But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.”
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
