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“his power stretched through a narrow space, but he felt its effect the more intensely.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...”
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“When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“In Mr. Casaubon’s ear, Dorothea’s voice gave loud emphatic iteration to those muffled suggestions of consciousness which it was possible to explain as mere fancy, the illusion of exaggerated sensitiveness: always when such suggestions are unmistakably repeated from without, they are resisted as cruel and unjust.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”
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