What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?George Eliot
“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life?”
Novelist · 1819 – 1880
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading English novelists of the Victorian era. Her works, including Middlemarch, Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss, are celebrated for their realism and psychological depth.
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