Mentions (5)
"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."
"It's like George Eliot's story 'The Lifted Veil'. Suddenly the inner thoughts of power are projected onto the screen in everyone's hand – all the drivelling banalities, the selfishness, the contempt for others, the lack of interest in anything the world has to offer except personal gain, the malice,"
"Listening to George Eliot describing the personalities of an 1830s vicar and his family for 20 pages is way cooler + better for you and the world than repeatedly refreshing Twitter in order to read a trickle of stupid shit all day long"
"I am utterly crushed by this quote: For in the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
"I am utterly crushed by this quote"