If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it…

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.

George Eliot

Middlemarch · 1872

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Topic

The little things The ordinary and mundane

Medium

Novel

Time

1872

Person

George Eliot

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Current citation

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

Original citation

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

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