What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTIt is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
More George Eliot Quotes
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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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.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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