I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
GEORGE ELIOTWe have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
More George Eliot Quotes
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I flutter all ways, and fly in none.
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Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
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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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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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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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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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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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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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