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George Eliot, właśc. Mary Ann Evans

✵ 22. Listopad 1819 – 22. Grudzień 1880  •  Natępne imiona Marian Evans

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George Eliot: 317 cytatów3 Polubienia

George Eliot słynne cytaty

„Nie przeczę, że kobiety są głupie: Bóg Wszechmogący stworzył je takimi, aby je dopasować do mężczyzn.”

„Kobieta wierzy, że 2 + 2 zmieni się w 5, jeśli będzie długo płakać i zrobi awanturę.”

„Żadna beznadziejność nie jest tak smutna jak beznadziejność wczesnej młodości, kiedy w duszy są tylko pragnienia.”

„Nie mówię, że kobiety nie są głupie. Stworzono je na podobieństwo mężczyzn.”

„Nasze słowa posiadają skrzydła, lecz często lecą nie tam, gdzie chcemy.”

„Najlepszy przyjaciel – moje źródło na pustyni.”

George Eliot Cytaty o ludziach

„Tylko biedni ludzie odczuwają prawdziwą przyjemność, gdy mogą coś ofiarować.”

„Moim artystycznym zamierzeniem nie jest przedstawianie nienagannie prowadzących się osób, lecz ludzi rozmaitych charakterów, których postawa wymaga od nas tolerancji, współczucia i sympatii. I nie mogę ani na krok odejść od tego, co według mnie jest prawdą o postaci.”

Źródło: Deborah G. Felder, 100 kobiet, które miały największy wpływ na dzieje ludzkości, wyd. Świat Książki, Warszawa 1998, ISBN 8371296665, tłum. Maciej Świerkocki, s. 91.

„Do wielu anomalii, do jakich skłonna jest natura ludzka, moraliści nigdy nie zaliczali zbytniej życzliwości wobec ludzi, którzy otwarcie lżą.”

George Eliot cytaty

„Niech będzie błogosławiony człowiek, który nie mając nic do powiedzenia powstrzymuje się od ubrania tego faktu w słowa.”

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact. (ang.) <br class="br">Źródło: Impressions of Theophrastus Such http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10762/10762-h/10762-h.htm, 1879

„Cóż to za nieopisana ulga, mieć poczucie bezpieczeństwa przy innej osobie, nie musieć ważyć myśli, ani mierzyć słów, lecz wylewać je wszystkie z siebie wiedząc, że wierna dłoń przyjmie je i zachowa…”

„Wkrótce będziemy parą starych, pomarszczonych stworzeń. Nie szkodzi – im brzydsi będziemy w oczach innych, tym piękniejsi będziemy dla siebie nawzajem.”

„Kobieto, jeśli nie możesz być gwiazdą na niebie, bądź przynajmniej lampą naftową w domu!”

„Błazen to człowiek, który oczekuje, że zdarzą się rzeczy, które się nigdy nie wydarzą.”

„Po cóż żyjemy, jeśli nie po to, by życie czynić łatwiejsze dla siebie nawzajem?”

„Szczęście jest opasłą obojętnością dla cudzych trosk.”

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Wszyscy pamiętamy epoki w naszym doświadczeniu, kiedy umiera coś oczekiwanego lub rodzi się nowy motyw.”

George Eliot: Cytaty po angielsku

“We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”

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George Eliot książka The Lifted Veil

Źródło: The Lifted Veil

“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

First lines.
Źródło: Middlemarch (1871)

“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Źródło: Adam Bede

“I protest against any absolute conclusion.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Wariant: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Źródło: Middlemarch (1871)

“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”

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George Eliot książka Silas Marner

Źródło: Silas Marner

“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!”

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George Eliot książka The Mill on the Floss

Źródło: The Mill on the Floss

“Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Źródło: Adam Bede

“We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

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Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones (1875)

“It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Źródło: Middlemarch

“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”

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George Eliot książka Silas Marner

Źródło: Silas Marner

“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”

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George Eliot książka Daniel Deronda

Book 3, Ch. 24
Źródło: Daniel Deronda (1876)

“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”

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George Eliot książka Daniel Deronda

Źródło: Daniel Deronda

“I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Consequences are unpitying. Our”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Adam Bede

“Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before — consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

“It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there's no knowing — perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late.”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

“Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”

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George Eliot książka Adam Bede

Chapter 53 http://books.google.com/books?id=0OU8AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Howiver+I'm+not+deny+in+the+women+are+foolish+God+Almighty+made+em+to+match+the+men%22&pg=PA530#v=onepage <br class="br">Adam Bede (1859)

“While the arm is strong to strike and heave,
Let soul and arm give shape that will abide…”

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The Legend of Jubal (1869)

“Fancy what a game at chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own; if your knight could shuffle himself on to a new square by the sly; if your bishop, in disgust at your castling, could wheedle your pawns out of their places; and if your pawns, hating you because they are pawns, could make away from their appointed posts that you might get checkmate on a sudden. You might be the longest-headed of deducted reasoners, and yet you might be beaten by your own pawns. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt.
Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with the game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for his instruments. He thinks himself sagacious, perhaps, because he trusts no bond except that of self-interest; but the only self-interest he can safely rely on is what seems to be such to the mind he would use or govern. Can he ever be sure of knowing this?”

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George Eliot książka Felix Holt, the Radical

Start of Chapter 29 (at page 237)
Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)

“It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people’s hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman’s End.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“But a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited—a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage— a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“The beings closest to us, whether in love or hate, are often virtually our interpreters of the world, and some feather-headed gentleman or lady whom in passing we regret to take as legal tender for a human being may be acting as a melancholy theory of life in the minds of those who live with them — like a piece of yellow and wavy glass that distorts form and makes colour an affliction. Their trivial sentences, their petty standards, their low suspicions, their loveless ennui, may be making somebody else's life no better than a promenade through a pantheon of ugly idols.”

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George Eliot książka Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda (1876)

“Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.”

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Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

“But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp.”

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George Eliot książka Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”

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Letter to Charles Bray (15 November 1857)