What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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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.
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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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