To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
GEORGE ELIOTIt 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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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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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
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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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Consequences are unpitying.
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Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.
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What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
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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 like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
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