But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of un…

George Eliot
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ✨ George Eliot (2013). Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated), p.2488, Delphi Classics
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