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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes. -- Cynthia Ozick
Sincerity is moral truth. -- George Henry Lewes
All great authors are seers. -- George Henry Lewes
Insight is the first condition of Art. -- George Henry Lewes
All good Literature rests primarily on insight. -- George Henry Lewes
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. -- George Henry Lewes
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent. -- George Henry Lewes
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. -- George Henry Lewes
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. -- George Henry Lewes
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. -- George Henry Lewes
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. -- George Henry Lewes
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. -- George Henry Lewes
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. -- George Henry Lewes
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. -- George Henry Lewes
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. -- George Henry Lewes
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. -- George Henry Lewes
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. -- George Henry Lewes
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public. -- George Henry Lewes
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. -- George Henry Lewes
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving. -- George Henry Lewes
Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe. -- J. K. Rowling

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