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People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

George Eliot

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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Country Memories Mind People Person Vague
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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Happy Learn Many One Spend Year
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
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Agony Depth Into Look Love Only Parting
Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
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Character Cut Marble Something Unalterable
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
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Compassion Down Grief Last Longer Make Sharer Thought Wrestling
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
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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Book Carefully Consolation Examine Find Great Look Much Order Over Own Page World
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.
GEORGE ELIOT

Country Deal Great Unmapped Within
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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Cheat Child Consciously Hide Itself Love Play Seek Solitary Way
People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.
GEORGE ELIOT

Distance Eye Faculty Immediately Less Live Naturally Own People Under
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
GEORGE ELIOT

Ame Interpreter Longer Raed Rather Same Story Use
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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Darkest Earth Fell Keenly Light Made Night Star Start Upon
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Defeat Many Victory Worse
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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Beyond Enough Grave Large Like Love Only Realism Silence
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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Bever Creature Eyes Lovelier Mind Old Other Shall Shriveleld Uglier Watch
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
GEORGE ELIOT

Bind Duty Lie Pst Us

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