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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down wit

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. – George Eliot

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Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

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