“So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.”

— George Eliot , book Felix Holt, the Radical

Source: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter 27 (at page 219)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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