George Eliot

Naissance 22 November 1819 · Décès 22 December 1880

George Eliot était une romancière anglaise, l'une des grandes figures de l'époque victorienne. Elle est l'auteure de sept romans, parmi lesquels *Le Moulin sur la Floss* (1860), *Silas Marner* (1861), *Middlemarch* (1871–1872) et *Daniel Deronda* (1876).

Citations

“If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.”
Letter to Charles Bray 5 July 1859En anglais
“Blessed influence of one true, loving human soul on another. Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower.”
Scenes of Clerical Life, Chapter 19En anglais
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.”
Adam Bede, Chapter 4En anglais
“Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.”
Adam Bede, Chapter 6En anglais
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
The Mill on the Floss, Chapter vEn anglais