artist-self

Updated: July 9, 2025

I am a man in love, and in proportion as my love has strengthened, so has my old artist-self revived in me, until now I can imagine no bliss so perfect as to marry Jane Snowdon and go off to live with her amid fields and trees, where no echo of the suffering world should ever reach us. To confess this was to make it terribly certain that sooner or later the burden of conscientiousness would become intolerable.

George Gissing - The Nether World