It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
GEORGE ELIOTTrouble’s made us kin.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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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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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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