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.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
More George Eliot Quotes
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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It is hard to believe long together that anything is “worth while,” unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
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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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It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.
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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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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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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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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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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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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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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