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.
GEORGE ELIOTAn ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
More George Eliot Quotes
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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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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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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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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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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