I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
GEORGE ELIOTI think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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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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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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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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