I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
GEORGE ELIOTI 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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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.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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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.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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