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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.

George Eliot

It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
GEORGE ELIOT

Be Late Meant never To Too
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Anything Believe Common Eye Hard Kindle Long Own Some Together Worth
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
GEORGE ELIOT

Afar After Been Deed From Make Travel
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
GEORGE ELIOT

Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
GEORGE ELIOT

Best Better Couse Everything Except Know Wonder
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.
GEORGE ELIOT

Acquaintance Day Like New Next One Sure Them Will
Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.
GEORGE ELIOT

According Bees Country Impatient Other People Person Stinging Themselves
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
GEORGE ELIOT

Between Fifty Hardest Seventy Year
In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past-sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bed Oppressive Yesterday
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.
GEORGE ELIOT

Each Other Feel Greater Human Join One Soul Strength Thing
Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Appearances Happiness Little Very
The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
GEORGE ELIOT

Higher Lawlessness Rebellion Right Rule Seek Wander
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
GEORGE ELIOT

Feel Human Keen Life Ordinary Vison
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT

Against Fight Fog Ignorance Interpretation Unless Whip

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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