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.
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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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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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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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
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The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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