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.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
More George Eliot Quotes
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one’s mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
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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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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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