If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOTI like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
More George Eliot Quotes
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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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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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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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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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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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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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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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