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.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Those who trust us educate us.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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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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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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