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 ELIOTDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.
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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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars 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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The best travel is that which one can take by one’s own fireside. In memory or imagination.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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.
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The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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