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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.

George Eliot

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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Absolute Come Despair First Great Known Moment Sorrow Yet
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Dreary Life Make Motive Want
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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Giving Luxury Must One Poor
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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Act Bear Been Content Day Grief Our Silence Suffer Were
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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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
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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Being Friend Get Good Into Nonsense Quarrel Rage Sometimes
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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Death Kind World
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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Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
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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Autumn Bird Delicious Earth Seek Soul Successive Very Wedded
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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Agree All Call Impulse Name Inspiration Nobel Rapid Through
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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Anything Book Enough Money Temptation Want World
Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Earth Fit Heaven Jew Most Useful
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
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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Better Degree False Impression Life Live Precious Quitely Some Spend Under Unweaving Wear
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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Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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Break Desirer Future Past Tie

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