The Roar on the Other Side of Silence

From Middlemarch by George Eliot
One of the most quoted passages in English fiction, articulating Eliot's vision of sympathy and the limits of human perception.
Chapter 20
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, 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 silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
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