What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
GEORGE ELIOTThe best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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