George Eliot

"The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief."

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Source: George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.348, Cambridge University Press

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George Eliot

George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

George Eliot was a pioneering English novelist known for her deep psychological insight and exploration of social issues in works like Middlemarch.

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