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“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”

George Eliot · Time

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George Eliot

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

History

George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Happiness

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Pet

George Eliot

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Travel