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George Eliot, de son vrai nom Mary Ann Evans, est une romancière britannique née le 22 novembre 1819 à Nuneaton et morte le 22 décembre 1880 à Chelsea, à Londres. Elle est considérée comme un des plus grands écrivains victoriens, tous sexes confondus. Ses romans, qui se situent dans une Angleterre provinciale , sont connus pour leur réalisme et leur profondeur psychologique.

Elle prit un nom de plume à consonance masculine afin que son œuvre soit prise au sérieux. Même si les autrices de cette période publiaient librement sous leur vrai nom, l'usage d'un nom masculin lui aurait permis de s'assurer que ses œuvres ne soient pas perçues comme de simples romans d'amour. L'autre facteur décisif a pu être le souhait d'être jugé séparément de son travail d'éditeur et de critique déjà reconnu et le désir de préserver sa vie privée des curiosités du public et notamment sa relation scandaleuse avec George Henry Lewes, un homme marié avec qui elle vécut plus de 20 ans. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. novembre 1819 – 22. décembre 1880  •  Autres noms Marian Evans
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“Si les choses n'ont pas, pour vous et moi, tourné aussi mal qu'elles l'auraient pu, c'est en grande partie grâce à ces êtres qui ont vécu loyalement une existence discrète et reposent dans des tombes délaissées.”

George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”

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George Eliot livre Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”

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George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

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George Eliot livre Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”

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George Eliot livre Daniel Deronda

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“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“After all, the true seeing is within.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

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George Eliot livre Daniel Deronda

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“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Daniel Deronda (1876)
Source: Middlemarch

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 563

“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it
are no longer the same interpreters.”

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“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”

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“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”

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George Eliot livre Adam Bede

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“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”

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George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch (1871)
Contexte: Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.

“People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch (1871)

“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”

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George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

“Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.”

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George Eliot livre Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand - …”

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George Eliot livre Silas Marner

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 18 (at page 163)

“She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

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“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”

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George Eliot livre Middlemarch

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“It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.”

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George Eliot livre The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

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