She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
GEORGE ELIOTRome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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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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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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