Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
GEORGE ELIOTNo story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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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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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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Justice is like the kingdom of God–it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
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I think I dislike what I don’t like more than I like what I like.
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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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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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