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Quotation from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent”

George Eliot (spoken by Narrator)

Middlemarch, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of George Eliot

The parable of the pier-glass, applied first to Rosamond Vincy's view of her own Providence.

Citation: "These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent" — George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book III, Chapter XXVII (Project Gutenberg text). (id middlemarch-q5)

Portrait: George Eliot, por François D'Albert Durade, replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain.

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