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.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2, ch. 20.

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