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 ELIOTVague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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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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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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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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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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