The perpetual mourner – the grief that can never be healed – is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning — a new acquaintance with grief.

Source:Letter to J. W. Cross (February 7, 1879), George Eliot's Life, as Related in her Letters and Journals, Chapter XIX
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