George Eliot: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.
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“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

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George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda

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“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

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“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope.”

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George Eliot livro Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

Fonte: Middlemarch (1871), Chapter 1 (misprinted as "Some people did" in some editions, such as Penguin Signet Classics).

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

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George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Those who trust us educate us.”

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George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda

Fonte: Daniel Deronda (1876)

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

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“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

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George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss

Fonte: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”

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George Eliot livro Adam Bede

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“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

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George Eliot livro The Mill on the Floss

Fonte: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

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George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda

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“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”

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George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda

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“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

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“After all, the true seeing is within.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

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“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

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George Eliot livro Daniel Deronda

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“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

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George Eliot livro Middlemarch

Daniel Deronda (1876)
Fonte: Middlemarch