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George Eliot Quotes: It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
         

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.


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