George Eliot citáty
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George Eliot
Dátum narodenia: 22. november 1819
Dátum úmrtia: 22. december 1880
Ďalšie mená:Marian Evans
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George Eliot vlastným menom Mary Ann Evansová bola anglická spisovateľka.
Citáty George Eliot
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„Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.“
— George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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„What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?“
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
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„O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude...“
— George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems
„But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.“
— George Eliot, Middlemarch
