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Gwendolen Harleth quotes

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Was she beautiful or not beautiful? and what was the secret of form or expression which gave the dynamic quality to her glance?

— Narrator of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876)

I only know that I saw my wish outside me.

— Gwendolen Harleth · Gwendolen Harleth in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876)

It is better—it shall be better with me because I have known you.

— Gwendolen Harleth · Gwendolen Harleth in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876)

I am going to the East to become better acquainted with the condition of my race in various countries there

— Daniel Deronda · Daniel Deronda in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876)

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Daniel Deronda

By George Eliot (1876) — the story, the places, the editions.

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