#George Eliot

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

[reveuseinflorence]

"But you always were wrong: only I can't help loving you."

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

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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

[thoughtkick]

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

[majestativa]

My soul is so knit to yours.

— George Eliot, My Gothic Heart, (2023)

[hayleylovesjessica]

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?

[philosophybits]

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

[beforevenice]

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

// george eliot

[wellconstructedsentences]

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

[lovelautski]

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

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[heatherfield]

@giftober 2024 | Day 16: lights

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

[perfectquote]

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

[petaltexturedskies]

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

[nobeerreviews]

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

[surqrised]

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