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The Mill on the Floss quotes

George Eliot

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“we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“I'm not to be imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“no anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

“Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing” George Eliot, “The Mill on the Floss” - 1860

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