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“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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“character too is a process and an unfolding.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch

“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition

“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch

“his power stretched through a narrow space, but he felt its effect the more intensely.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
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