The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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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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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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I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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