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 ELIOTOne has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
More George Eliot Quotes
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It’s never too late to be who you were meant to be.
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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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What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
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We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
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One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
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And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
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Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
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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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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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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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I love not to be choked with other men’s thoughts.
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