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.
GEORGE ELIOTQuarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
More George Eliot Quotes
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
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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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Trouble’s made us kin.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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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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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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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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