What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
GEORGE ELIOTFriendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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I have nothing to tell except travellers’ stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.
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I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
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In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools’ pleasure
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.
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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.
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“Abroad,” that large home of ruined reputations.
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To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
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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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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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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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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.
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I don’t want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
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