Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
GEORGE ELIOTLove 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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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