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George Eliot
16 quotes
Quotes
- “Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a gi...”
- “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the r...”
- “What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite ...”
- “There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not y...”
- “It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel ...”
- “The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compo...”
- “But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
- “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
- “What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
- “Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
- “Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”
- “Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
- “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.”
- “Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.”
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
- “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”