Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880
Birthday: November 22
Death: December 22
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
source: George Eliot (1873). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.148
topic: Men, Joy, Forever, Middlemarch, Haggard, Triviality