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In the last few years, I’ve been steadily reading my way through some of the classics I have never got round to before. At present, I’m four or five chapters into George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and I have to say that this Gwendolyn is a nasty piece of work. I am getting right fed up with her! #Reading #Books #GeorgeEliot #DanielDeronda
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"Naturally, there was a shrinking of courage as misfortune ceased to be a mere announcement, and began to disclose itself as a grievous tyrannical inmate. ”
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“Make up your mind to a brief disappointment. Life is full of them. We have all got to be broken in; and this is a mild beginning for you.”
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George EliotReviewing, rereading some parts/notes on Daniel Deronda.
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Finished; rereading bits. This epigraph feels rather timely:
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul:
There, ’mid the throng of hurrying desires
That trample on the dead to seize their spoil,
Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible
As exhalations laden with slow death,
And o’er the fairest troop of captured joys
Breathes pallid pestilence.”Excerpt From
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George Eliot & Terence Cave#trumpinauguration #maga #trumpism #danielderonda #georgeeliot #books #bookstodon
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1. "There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives –
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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? – an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”
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“In reading unwelcome news, instead of hearing it, there is the advantage that one avoids a hasty expression of impatience which may afterwards be repented of. ”
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“Clever persons who have nothing else to sell can often put a good price on their absence”
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“So pregnant is the divine hope of moral recovery with the energy that fulfils it. So potent in us is the infused action of another soul, before which we bow in complete love.”
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“Per pietà non dirmi addio”
“For pity’s sake, do not say goodbye to me.”
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Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il PurgatorioPurgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
#dante #divinecomedy #purgatory #virgil #gustavedore #ladivinacommedia #theAscent #dantealighieri #DanielDeronda #georgeEliot #books #bookstodon
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Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il PurgatorioPurgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
#dante #divinecomedy #purgatory #virgil #gustavedore #ladivinacommedia #theAscent #dantealighieri #DanielDeronda #georgeEliot #books #bookstodon
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Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il PurgatorioPurgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
#dante #divinecomedy #purgatory #virgil #gustavedore #ladivinacommedia #theAscent #dantealighieri #DanielDeronda #georgeEliot #books #bookstodon
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Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il PurgatorioPurgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
#dante #divinecomedy #purgatory #virgil #gustavedore #ladivinacommedia #theAscent #dantealighieri #DanielDeronda #georgeEliot #books #bookstodon
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Questa montagna è tale,
Che sempre al cominciar di sotto è grave,
E quanto uom più va su e men fa male.
– DANTE: Il PurgatorioPurgatorio, IV. 88–90: ‘This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.'
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) - Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883))
#dante #divinecomedy #purgatory #virgil #gustavedore #ladivinacommedia #theAscent #dantealighieri #DanielDeronda #georgeEliot #books #bookstodon
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“Failure will not be ignoble, but it would be ignoble for me not to try.”
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‘Luck is a fickle girl
who doesn’t like lingering in any one place;
she strokes your hair back from your brow,
kisses you quickly and flits away.Lady Misfortune, by contrast,
presses you tightly to her loving heart;
she says she’s not in a hurry,
sits down beside your bed and knits.’Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
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“Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.”
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“Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.”
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“I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.
– SHAKESPEARE”Excerpt From
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And #chatGPT notes on the context and meaning of this epigraph.
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Last one for now:
“We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.”
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"Within ourselves our evil will is momentous, and sooner or later it works its way outside us – it may be in the vitiation that breeds evil acts, but also it may be in the self-abhorrence that stings us into better striving.”
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“There were no words of comfort that did not carry some sacrilege. If he had opened his lips to speak, he could only have echoed, ‘It can never be altered – it remains unaltered, to alter other things.”
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Okay. we are *finally* getting near the end of the book (couple hundred pages left) -- main characters are starting to be off-ed.
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“A man out of temper does not wait for proofs before feeling towards all things animate and inanimate as if they were in a conspiracy against him, but at once thrashes his horse or kicks his dog in consequence.”
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Not entirely inappropriate for today, vote certification day, Jan 6 2025..
“And the intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear, which compels to silence and drives vehemence into a constructive vindictiveness, an imaginary annihilation of the detested object, something like the hidden rites of vengeance with which the persecuted have made a dark vent for their rage, and soothed their suffering into dumbness.”Excerpt From
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“In the irritable, fluctuating stages of despair, gleams of hope came in the form of some possible accident. To dwell on the benignity of accident was a refuge from worse temptation.”
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“My Hope wanders among the orchard-blossoms, feels the warm snow falling on it through the sunshine, and is in doubt of nothing; but, catching sight of Certainty in the distance, sees an ugly Janus*-faced deity, with a dubious wink on the hither side of him, and turns quickly away. ”
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George Eliot*Facing both ways: Janus was the Roman god of doorways
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“Ever in his soul
That larger justice which makes gratitude
Triumphed above resentment. ’Tis the mark
Of regal natures, with the wider life,
And fuller capability of joy: –
Not wits exultant in the strongest lens
To show you goodness vanished into pulp
Never worth ‘thank you’ – they’re the devil’s friars,
Vowed to be poor as he in love and trust,
Yet must go begging of a world that keeps
Some human property.”Excerpt
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"...But I never did like anything fanatical. I suppose I heard a little too much preaching in my youth, and lost my palate for it.”
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‘Non ti difende
Nessun de’ tuoi? L’armi, qua I’ armi: io solo
Combatterò, procomberò sol io'Do none of thy children defend thee? Arms! bring me arms! alone I will fight, alone I will fall.
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“– a feeling something like class animosity, which affection for what is not fully recognised by others, whether in persons or in poetry, rarely allows us to escape. ”
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"...the lives that burn themselves out in solitary enthusiasm: martyrs of obscure circumstance, exiled in the rarity of their own minds, whose deliverances in other ears are no more than a long passionate soliloquy – unless perhaps at last, when they are nearing the invisible shores, signs of recognition and fulfilment may penetrate the cloud of loneliness"
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“I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. [..] Shall man, whose soul is set in the royalty of discernment and resolve, deny his rank and say, I am an onlooker, ask no choice or purpose of me? [..] Let us contradict the blasphemy, and help to will our own better future and the better future of the world [..] The vision is there; it will be fulfilled.”
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'Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice,
him or her I shall follow,
As the water follows the moon, silently,
with fluid steps anywhere around the globe.’– Walt Whitman, Vocalism, Leaves of Grass, 1855
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That feeling when you're... 15 hours into a book (Victorian epic) and then everything is put on hold for an hour (please less!) of discourse on the nature and fate of the Jews... #Eliot #DanielDeronda