What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
GEORGE ELIOTOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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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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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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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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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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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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