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Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

George Eliot

Adam Bede · 1859

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Topic

Inflection points Overcoming adversity Adversity Suffering

Statement type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Medium

Novel

Time

1859

Person

George Eliot

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Current citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 42.

Original citation

Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 42.

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