In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOTWhat 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.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.
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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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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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