We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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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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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind – the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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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.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine–something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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