It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
GEORGE ELIOTthere are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don’t understand; and the other is, to tell them what they’re used to.
More George Eliot Quotes
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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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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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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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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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