There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first mom…

George Eliot
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ✨ George Eliot (2016). George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss, p.316, Xist Publishing
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