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“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”
― Absalom and Achitophel
― Absalom and Achitophel
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a continuous critical exasperation, would use the word of him without stopping to think. They feel that Dickens is a great writer even if he is not a good writer.”
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“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
― The Mill on the Floss
― The Mill on the Floss
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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