🔗 Alan Jacobs -
Marian Evans (George Eliot), from a letter to Charles Bray in 1859:
I have had heart-cutting experience that opinions are a poor cement between human souls; and the only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures.
Reposting this from [@ayjay](https://micro.blog/ayjay) because it really deserves sharing.