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.
GEORGE ELIOTMuch of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Your trouble’s easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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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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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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