“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.”

—  George Eliot , book Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880

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