"How does it stand with us now? Is there anyone else stands between us?" Henleigh Grandcourt #DanielDeronda
"Mama, is it very unpleasant to be married?" Gwendolen Harleth #DanielDeronda
"Imagine to be so rich you can keep one of your European composer as a pet."
Gwendolen Harleth #DanielDeronda
"I can never turn my back on my family or my religion." Mirah Lapidoth #DanielDeronda
"If you present yourself again to her and make a scene I will never forgive you." Henleigh Grandcourt #DanielDeronda
"You will have your punishment. The man you have marri d has a withered heart. The wrong you have done me will be your curse." Lydia Glasher #DanielDeronda
Coming soon.
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I’ve nearly finished #DanielDeronda and HOLY CRAPOLA George Eliot is a genius.
These #MeadowSweet flowers just make me foolish with joy 🤪🌸
“I like foolish things - I like being foolish” - Gwendolyn Harleth
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“Gwendolen storms, a moody delight,
My smoke muse glows for gals so bright”
#Poetry by Wolfie Darby
“I shall never love anybody. I can’t love people. I hate them.” - Gwendolyn Harleth #DanielDeronda - George Eliot
#ScruffySmokePoetry
#NewEnglandMuse
Listening to #DanielDeronda; Eliot writes characters I cordially loathe and absolutely believe in. V much like #TheArchers in fact
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"Naturally, there was a shrinking of courage as misfortune ceased to be a mere announcement, and began to disclose itself as a grievous tyrannical inmate. ”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
Rereading/reviewing parts of Daniel Deronda..
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“Make up your mind to a brief disappointment. Life is full of them. We have all got to be broken in; and this is a mild beginning for you.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
Reviewing, rereading some parts/notes on Daniel Deronda.
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And o’er the fairest troop of captured joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot & Terence Cave
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1. "There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives –
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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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.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“In reading unwelcome news, instead of hearing it, there is the advantage that one avoids a hasty expression of impatience which may afterwards be repented of. ”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“Clever persons who have nothing else to sell can often put a good price on their absence”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“So pregnant is the divine hope of moral recovery with the energy that fulfils it. So potent in us is the infused action of another soul, before which we bow in complete love.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“Per pietà non dirmi addio”
“For pity’s sake, do not say goodbye to me.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
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“Failure will not be ignoble, but it would be ignoble for me not to try.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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‘Lady Misfortune, by contrast,
presses you tightly to her loving heart;
she says she’s not in a hurry,
sits down beside your bed and knits.’
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
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“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.”
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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“I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
– SHAKESPEARE”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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And #chatGPT notes on the context and meaning of this epigraph.
Last one for now:
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.”
Excerpt From
Daniel Deronda
George Eliot
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