want find a mode renunciation escape pain. tell again, no escape possi — George Eliot, Mill Floss

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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.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

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Related Topics: cynicism, identity, nature-of-man, pain

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