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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.

George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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Like Love Not Only Told
Consequences are unpitying.
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Consequences Unpitying
Death is the king of this world: ‘Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
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Death Kind World
We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one’s life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.
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Delight Divide Idea Journey Life New One Seem Suggest Two Unspeakable
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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Call Despair Eagerness Hope Painful Unfed
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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Flower Humanity Smile Sunshine
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Deed Determine Much
“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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Country Home Large Ruined Reputation
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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Account Country Deal Explanation Great Gust Storm Taken Ummpapped
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cap Carry Else Everybody Fool Ilusion Lie Opaque Own People Ridiculous Think Unaware
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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Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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Kill Once Suspicious
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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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.
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Come Forward Imagine Look never Ourselves Pass Precisely Thing Way
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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Ass Before Bray Down Shake Star
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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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable

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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