People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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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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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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.
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If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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