Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
GEORGE ELIOTIn 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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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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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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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool’s caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else’s are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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