Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched...

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been, to issues of longing and constancy.

George Eliot

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George Eliot

English novelist, essayist and translator

November 22nd, 1819 - December 22nd, 1880

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