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#1

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: narrow-mind, open-mindedness, perspective

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“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: inspirational, life, thoughtful

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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: silence

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“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“..for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#7

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: anguish, despair, fulfillment, hope

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“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: funny, human-nature

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“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: poet, poetry

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#10

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar/And what we have been makes us what we are.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: integrity

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#11

“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#12

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: discovery, life, world

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#13

“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.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#14

“Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: men-women

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“Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: insanity, sanity

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#16

“For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: pain-memories-compassion

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#17

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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#18

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: humor, society

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#19

“A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: arrogance, humor, society

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“Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: love, soul-mate

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“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: pain, pride

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#22

“Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: soul

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#23

“When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: relationships

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#24

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: memory, mood, temper

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#25

“Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: emotion, infatuation

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#26

“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: circle, limit

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#27

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: generosity, pride, vanity, witty

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#28

“The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: encouragement, faith, friendship

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#29

“I don't make myself disagreeable; it is you who find me so. Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for it seems to be a cheapening of our lives. And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: emotions, feelings, value

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