George Eliot citáty
George Eliot
Datum narození: 22. listopad 1819
Datum úmrtí: 22. prosinec 1880
Další jména: Marian Evans
Mary Ann Evansová, v literatuře známá pod pseudonymem George Eliot, byla anglická spisovatelka, novinářka a překladatelka, jedna z nejvýznamnějších autorek viktoriánského období. Ve své době pobouřila veřejnost nelegitimním vztahem se spisovatelem a Goethovým životopiscem Georgem Henry Lewesem. První její prací byly překlady německých filozofů Davida Strausse a Ludwiga Feuerbacha, o kterých se tenkrát velmi diskutovalo.
Citáty George Eliot
„A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.“
Thiis was published without credit in The Best Loved Poems of the American People (1936) with the title "Friendship", and since that time has sometimes been misattributed http://www.geonius.com/eliot/quotes.html to Eliot; it is actually an adaptation of lines by Dinah Craik, in A Life for a Life (1859):
Misattributed
Kontext: Oh, the comfort —
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person —
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but pouring them all right out,
just as they are,
chaff and grain together;
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
„What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?“
— George Eliot, kniha Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
Kontext: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
