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.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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“Heaven help us,” said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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