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.
GEORGE ELIOTImpatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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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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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
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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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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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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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