George Gissing Quotes


It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.


Citations

Gissing, George. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Archibald Constable, 1903, p. 45.

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George Gissing
George Gissing
  • Born: November 22, 1857
  • Died: December 28, 1903
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist

George Robert Gissing was an English novelist, who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. His best-known novels, which have reappeared in modern editions, include The Nether World (1889), New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893).