/lit/ - Literature

>>10783796
These are the final lines from Middlemarch, they encapsulate and summarize what I felt about both Dorothea and Akari:

"Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

That is, our lives are so happily and largely influenced by the unseen deeds of those who meant good to us and by how we keep our minds open to the beauty of the uninportant and the everyday.

>>10783805
Nice, I see and raise