There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
GEORGE ELIOTThere is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
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Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
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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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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.
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A good horse makes short miles.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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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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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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… it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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Consequences are unpitying.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
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