All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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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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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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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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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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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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