Related Authors: George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss
Related Topics: cynicism, identity, nature-of-man, pain










You want to find out a mode of renunciation that will be an escape from pain. I tell you again, there is no such escape possible except by perverting or mutilating one's nature. What would become of me, if I tried to escape pain? Scorn and cynicism would be my only opium; unless I could fall into some kind of conceited madness, and fancy myself a favourite of Heaven because I am not a favourite with men.
Related Authors: George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss
Related Topics: cynicism, identity, nature-of-man, pain
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