Middlemarch, Volume 1 Quotes

“Tal como Vesálio, não posso impedir a ignorância e o rancor das pessoas. Não podemos orientar o nosso comportamento em função das tolices dos outros, que são sempre imprevisíveis.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch, Volume 1

“I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch, Volume 1

“Em nós trazemos sempre o que fizemos,
E do que fomos faz-se o nosso ser.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch, Volume 1

“What was fresh to her mind was worn out to his; and such capacity of thought and feeling as had ever been stimulated in him by the general life of mankind had long shrunk to a sort of dried preparation, a lifeless embalmment of knowledge.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch, Volume 1