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George Eliot, pseudonimo di Mary Anne Evans , è stata una scrittrice britannica, una delle più importanti dell'epoca vittoriana. I suoi romanzi sono ambientati prevalentemente in Inghilterra e sono famosi per lo stile realista e l'approfondimento psicologico dei personaggi. La Evans usa uno pseudonimo a partire dalla sua prima opera narrativa "Scenes of Clerical Life"; a differenza di altre scrittrici a lei contemporanee o precedenti , la Evans utilizza uno pseudonimo non tanto per ragioni sociali, quanto per vezzo. Sebbene infatti all'epoca le donne scrittrici non fossero ben viste, la Evans proveniva da un rango sociale elevato, era la compagna dell'editore e intellettuale George Henry Lewes e la sua formazione ed esperienza erano già ben note al pubblico. Era inoltre tanto apprezzata da non aver alcun bisogno di nascondersi dietro a un falso nome.

✵ 22. Novembre 1819 – 22. Dicembre 1880  •  Altri nomi Marian Evans
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“Un’intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po’ spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.”

George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss

“I sotterfugi e le piccole bugie, ad un cuore leale, tanta pena quanto ad un artista le pennellate false che solo il suo occhio esperto sa distinguere. Ma diventano leggeri quando tutte le azioni sono state menzognere.”

George Eliot libro Silas Marner

cap. 13, p. 141
Silas Marner

“Gli animali sono amici così piacevoli: non fanno domande, non criticano.”

George Eliot

Origine: Da Scenes Of Clerical Life, VII
Origine: Citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Italo Sordi, BUR, 1992. ISBN 14603-X

“Affidiamo la gente alla misericordia di Dio, ma noi non ne dimostriamo alcuna.”

George Eliot

Origine: [pagina? edizione?]

“Dio è inconcepibile, l'immortalità incredibile, ma il dovere è perentorio e assoluto.”

George Eliot

Origine: Da La donna del tenente francese.

George Eliot Frasi e Citazioni

“In ogni separazione c'è un'immagine della morte.”

George Eliot

Origine: Da Scenes Of Clerical Life, X; citato in Dizionario delle citazioni, a cura di Ettore Barelli e Sergio Pennacchietti, BUR, 2013.

“Se presti attenzione ai tuoi discorsi, ti accorgerai che sono guidati dai tuoi intenti meno coscienti.”

George Eliot

da The mill on the Floss

“Essere poeta significa possedere un'anima così pronta a comprendere che nessuna sfumatura di qualità le sfugge, e così pronta a sentire, che quella comprensione non è che una mano che suona con varietà finemente ordinata sulle corde del sentimento - un'anima il cui sapere si trasforma istantaneamente in sentimento e il sentimento torna in un baleno ad essere un nuovo organo del sapere.”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Ci sono personalità in cui, se esse ci amano, siamo consapevoli di avere una sorta di battesimo e di consacrazione: esse ci vincolano alla rettitudine e alla purezza grazie alla loro pura fiducia in noi; e i nostri peccati divengono quel genere peggiore di sacrilegio che abbatte l'invisibile altare della fiducia. “Se tu non sei buono, non lo è nessuno” - queste brevi parole possono conferire un terribile significato alla responsabilità, possono contenere una forza corrosiva per il rimorso.”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Le nostre passioni non vivono l'una separata dall'altra, in camere serrate a chiave, ma, rivestite del loro modesto guardaroba di idee, portano i loro viveri a un tavolo comune e mangiano assieme, nutrendosi delle provviste comuni a seconda del loro appetito.”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Se vedessimo e sentissimo in modo intenso tutta la normale vita umana, sarebbe come udire l'erba crescere e il pulsare del cuore dello scoiattolo, e moriremmo per il frastuono che è al di là del silenzio. Così come stanno le cose, i più svegli di noi si muovono ben imbottiti di stupidità.”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Chiunque osservi con attenzione la convergenza furtiva dei destini umani, scorge una lenta preparazione di effetti che una vita esercita su un'altra, che ha l'effetto di una calcolata ironia sull'indifferenza o sullo sguardo gelido con cui guardiamo il nostro vicino non ancora conosciuto. Il Destino sta in attesa, sarcastico, tenendo i nostri dramatis personae stretti in pugno.”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Suppongo che una delle ragioni per le quali riusciamo molto raramente a consolare il nostro prossimo, sia quella che il nostro buon volere non sa tradursi in parole. Possiamo mandare doni e aiuti senza dar loro il sapore del nostro egoismo; ma la parola è come un torrente che conserva le tracce del terreno impuro che ha attraversato.”

George Eliot libro Silas Marner

cap. 10, p. 91
Silas Marner

“Le sofferenze acute e varie che nascono dalla sensibilità che accompagna una elevata cultura, sono forse meno degne di pietà di quella cupa privazione di ogni consolazione intellettuale, che obbliga le menti rozze a trovarsi costantemente a tu per tu con i propri dispiaceri e le proprie pene.”

George Eliot libro Silas Marner

cap. 3, pp. 37–38
Silas Marner

“Sorridi e fatti degli amici; ostenta un cipiglio e fatti venire le rughe: per che cosa viviamo, se non per rendere questo mondo meno difficile per tutti?”

George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch

“Certo che le donne sono sciocche: Dio Onnipotente le ha create per essere uguali agli uomini.”

George Eliot libro Adam Bede

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Adam Bede

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“L'infanzia non conosce inquietudine; ma, allo stesso tempo, non è placata da alcun ricordo di tristezza, che sia passata e a cui si sia sopravvissuti.”

George Eliot

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“È sempre fatale interrompere la musica o la poesia.”

George Eliot

George Eliot: Frasi in inglese

“The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.”

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George Eliot

As quoted in Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets (1881) by S. Pollock Linn; also in Still Waters http://books.google.com/books?id=VjAqAAAAYAAJ (1913)

“She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, — when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.”

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George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.”

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George Eliot

Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 2 (at page 17)

“The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent. A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink...”

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George Eliot

Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 5 (at page 41)

“If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.”

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George Eliot libro Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

“The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.”

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George Eliot libro Scenes of Clerical Life

"Janet's Repentance" Ch. 10 in Scenes of Clerical Life (1858); this has appeared in paraphrased form as: "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

“The difficulty is, to decide how far resolution should set in the direction of activity rather than in the acceptance of a more negative state.”

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George Eliot

Journal entry, December 31, 1877

“Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name. … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.”

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George Eliot libro Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Part 1
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879)

“With thy coming Melody was come.
This was thy lot, to feel, create, bestow,
And that immeasurable life to know
From which the fleshly self falls shrivelled, dead,
A seed primeval that has forests bred.”

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George Eliot

The Legend of Jubal (1869)

“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”

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George Eliot libro Scenes of Clerical Life

"The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" Ch. 4
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)

“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic — the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”

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George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Middlemarch (1871)

“If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice...”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched — he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.”

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Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 10 (at page 79)

“Ah," said Dolly, with soothing gravity, "it's like the night and the morning, and the sleeping and the waking, and the rain and the harvest — one goes and the other comes, and we know nothing how nor where. We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all — the big things come and go wi' no striving o' our'n — they do, that they do; and I think you're in the right on it to keep the little un, Master Marner, seeing as it's been sent to you, though there's folks as thinks different.”

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Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 14 (at page 121)

“Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

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George Eliot libro Middlemarch

Last lines
Middlemarch (1871)

“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakeable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbours, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habbit of the blood. At five years old, mortals are not prepared to be citizens of the world, to be stimulated by abstract nouns, to soar above preference into impartiality; and that prejudice in favour of milk with which we blindly begin, is a type of the way body and soul must get nourished at least for a time. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.”

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George Eliot libro Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda (1876)

“So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.”

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George Eliot libro Felix Holt, the Radical

Origine: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter 27 (at page 219)

“So soon as Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness — everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.”

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Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 24)

“[Mr Johnson] "You know what a Tory is – one who wants to drive the working men as he'd drive cattle."”

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George Eliot libro Felix Holt, the Radical

Origine: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866), Chapter 11 (at page 121)

“One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“Certain winds will make men's temper bad.”

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George Eliot

Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

“If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it…”

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George Eliot libro Il mulino sulla Floss

The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“His smile is sweetened by his gravity.”

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George Eliot

Book 1
The Spanish Gypsy (1868)

“no sort of duplicity can long flourish without the help of vocal falsehoods”

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Origine: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 9 (at page 71)

“People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.”

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George Eliot libro Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

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