George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 5 (at page 41)
“A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.”
— Walker Percy, book The Moviegoer
The Moviegoer (1961)
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