The George Eliot roar of silence
The English Victorian novelist George Eliot was famous for her ability to hit the psychological nail on the head with an apposite sentence. Here’s one of them :
We walk about “well-wadded with stupidity. … If we had but keen vision and feeling … it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silenceâ€.
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