Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
GEORGE ELIOTA patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
More George Eliot Quotes
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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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 is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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Consequences are unpitying.
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