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thoughtkick · 2 days ago

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Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

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twirld · 3 months ago

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Romola by George Eliot; with illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton (1880) National Library of New Zeland

#books #frederick leighton #george eliot #19th century #art #fore-edge paintings #fore edge painting

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petaltexturedskies · 1 year ago

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George Eliot in a letter to Miss Lewis, dated 1 October 1841 featured in George Eliot’s Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

#typography #george eliot #autumn #melancholy

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majestativa · 10 months ago

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My soul is so knit to yours.

— George Eliot, My Gothic Heart, (2023)

#English #George Eliot #My Gothic Heart #(2023)

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hayleylovesjessica · 3 months ago

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Tumblrinas like to talk about what's canon and what's not, but what about the actual literary canon? Which of the following works of Western literature have you read?

#books #literature #canon #Homer #Ovid #Augustine of Hippo #Dante Alighieri #Miguel de Cervantes #Molière #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #Herman Melville #Leo Tolstoy #George Eliot

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philosophybits · 2 years ago

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Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

#philosophy #quotes #George Eliot #The Mill on the Floss #poetry #art #knowledge #sacred #divine

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beforevenice · 6 months ago

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it is never too late to be what you might have been.

// george eliot

#photography #ph #venice #venezia #q #italy #travel photography #quote #italia #art #words #travel #artists on tumblr #personal #life #landscape #lit #missing #george eliot #view #g

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lovelautski · 11 months ago

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what would you do if you heard a rapping at your chamber door and you open it to see this:

#shipwrecked comedy #shipwrecked #poe party #george eliot

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todayontumblr · 1 year ago

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#today on tumblr #victorian #victorian era #victorian art #1800s #victorian literature #oscar wilde #charlotte bronte #anne bronte #george eliot #elizabeth gaskell #thomas hardy #charles dickens #bram stoker #emily bronte #victorian gothic #victorian aesthetic

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heatherfield · 2 months ago

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@giftober 2024 | Day 16: lights

Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party [x]

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perfectquote · 2 months ago

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Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

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nobeerreviews · 1 year ago

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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

-- George Eliot

#autumn #nature #nature photography #romania #travel photography #beauty #george eliot #quote #haystack

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petaltexturedskies · 3 months ago

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Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love that makes life and nature harmonize.

George Eliot, in a letter to Miss Lewis, dated 1 October 1841 featured in George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals

#autumn #george eliot #melancholy

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surqrised · 22 days ago

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Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

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wellconstructedsentences · 1 month ago

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

#middlemarch #george eliot

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philosophors · 6 months ago

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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”

— George Eliot

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