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.
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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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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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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Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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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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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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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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