With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.


Works of George Eliot...: Middlemarch (ed. 1901)

George Eliot Quotes

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a...