“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

—  George Eliot , book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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