What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTI have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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