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“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
Classics and the Western Canon
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