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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 6.

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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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Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbor.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 11.

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He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

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Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 9.

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We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.

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