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"...I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self-- never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action..."
— Jun 17, 2026 09:03PM
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"It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them. Even our own persons in the glass are apt to change their aspect for us after we have heard some frank remark on their less admirable points; on the other hand it is astonishing how pleasantly conscience takes our encroachments on those who never complain or have nobody to complain for them."
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"... or if she could have fed her affection with those childlike caresses which are the bent of every sweet woman, who has begun by showering kisses on the hard pate of her bald doll, creating a happy soul within that woodenness from the wealth of her own love. That was Dorothea's bent."
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This is an intriguing quote about Mr. Casaubon's big education fail. And yet he couldn't see it.
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Anne wrote: "This is an intriguing quote about Mr. Casaubon's big education fail. And yet he couldn't see it."I agree. The whole passage struck me. Coloring it with sympathy from the narrator also moved me in how I view his scholarly manner (first time read-- I don't know passed this). I ran out of characters in my saved quote but the sentence ended:
"...but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted."